By Matt Reed. Claire Major got a great discussion going on Twitter this weekend. She asked professors what they would go back and tell their first-year-of-teaching selves, if they had the chance.  The thread is well worth reading. More...

By Matt Reed. Kudos to Steve Robinson, the President of Owens Community College in Toledo, for attacking the community college stigma directly. He has even started a hashtag on Twitter -- #endccstigma -- to organize the campaign. More...

By Matt Reed. Alaska is proposing catastrophic cuts to its public flagship university, while allowing a small increase for its community colleges. More...

By Matt Reed. I read with interest the Chronicle blurb on “pop-up” courses, which are one-credit classes offered at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.  Students can take individual short courses, or stack them into three-credit bundles. More...

By Matt Reed. This piece is written about research universities, but it mostly applies to community colleges as well.
Good Trustees matter. In their way, bad Trustees do, too. More...

By Matt Reed. Sunday at the League for Innovation conference encapsulated the tensions in my job just about as well as anyone ever has, mostly without trying. It was jarring. More...

By Matt Reed. Monday’s League conference was one of the most encouraging conference days I’ve had in quite a while. For today, I’ll just focus on Uri Treisman’s keynote. More...

By Matt Reed. Middlesex Community College (MA, not to be confused with the ones in CT or NJ) has broken its student success course into one-credit shards, from which students pick three.  They’re then bundled into a single course on the transcript. More...

By Matt Reed. Weighing college offers.
Decision anxiety is a real thing. Sometimes that still surprises me. More...

By Matt Reed. Over the last few days, some colleagues and I have been meeting with curriculum directors and principals of local high schools to discuss ways to ensure that fewer high school grads place into developmental courses. More...