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28 avril 2017

Cutting Your Way to Greatness

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/styles/large/public/confessions_of_a_community_college_dean_blog_header.jpgBy Matt Reed. Has cutting your way to greatness ever worked? I can’t think of a time that it has, yet it remains a common default mode. More...
28 avril 2017

Fundraising

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/styles/large/public/confessions_of_a_community_college_dean_blog_header.jpgBy Matt Reed. Community colleges have lagged the rest of higher education in fundraising. In one sense, that’s counterintuitive: a donation goes a lot farther, and comes closer to students, at a community college than at an elite private college, but that doesn’t seem to drive donors. More...
28 avril 2017

'Centrism'

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/styles/large/public/confessions_of_a_community_college_dean_blog_header.jpgBy Matt Reed. Policies vs. labels.
As a trained political theorist, I’m inherently skeptical of anyone who loudly claims the mantle of “centrist.” It doesn’t mean what some people take it to mean. More...
28 avril 2017

Stakes Aren’t Cheap

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/styles/large/public/confessions_of_a_community_college_dean_blog_header.jpgBy Matt Reed. The Accuplacer is a placement test often administered to students during the admission process. It has several components, each addressing a different skill: reading, writing, arithmetic, and algebra. More...
28 avril 2017

Truth and Rallying

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/styles/large/public/confessions_of_a_community_college_dean_blog_header.jpgBy Matt Reed. A new study suggests that “intellectual humility,” defined as the serious practice of the idea that you could be wrong, is one of the most important traits of people who make good decisions. More...
28 avril 2017

Friday Fragments - April 13, 2017

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/styles/large/public/confessions_of_a_community_college_dean_blog_header.jpgBy Matt Reed. Tim Burke’s recent piece on academic bullying had a line that made me chuckle in rueful recognition. According to a faculty survey done at Swarthmore, most faculty agreed on two points:
1.  Faculty-to-faculty bullying is pervasive and often severe
2.  The administration absolutely should do nothing about it
In a nutshell, that’s the dilemma of administration. More...
27 avril 2017

Gadgets and Distractions

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/styles/large/public/confessions_of_a_community_college_dean_blog_header.jpgBy Matt Reed. It's too easy to assume that all distractions are electronic, or that all electronics are distractions. More...
27 avril 2017

Building and Rebuilding

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/styles/large/public/confessions_of_a_community_college_dean_blog_header.jpgBy Matt Reed. Most community colleges in the US were founded in or near the 1960’s, and most of them grew rapidly for decades after they started. New colleges, especially then, needed buildings. And buildings are easy enough to measure and count. The same is true of enrollments and programs. More...
27 avril 2017

Should You Get Into This Search?

HomeWhen should you say yes and when should you say no? Judith S. White offers advice. More...

27 avril 2017

The Erotics of Professing

HomeTeaching is a form of performance art, contends Bruce Fleming, and those watching us judge us as physical beings. More...

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