By Meg Palladino. As the calendar ticks over to April, and students and faculty are returning from Spring break, my mind has been ever focused on summer.  Through the snowstorms and flu season and bitter cold of this past winter, I was thinking of heat protocol, weekly barbecues, sunscreen giveaways, ice cream socials, and which classrooms on campus have air conditioning. More...

By Yves Salomon-Fernandez. It is very lonely at the top and the road to the presidency is becoming less linear. The paths are also becoming more varied for those seeking to lead at that level. The traditional roadmap of faculty to department chair, to dean, then provost, then president is becoming the road less and less traveled, as surveys of provosts reveal that fewer and fewer of those in such positions aspire to become presidents. More...

By Meg Palladino. Over the past year, I have had my professional legs straddling two different fields, ESL and Summer Sessions. It has been stressful at times, but I have also discovered that code switching between the two is not so difficult.  I attended both the North American Association of Summer Sessions (NAASS) conference and the Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) conference this year. More...

By Mary Churchill. I believe that many of us do not take evaluations seriously enough. They come once a year, at a time when we are often insanely busy. Some of us have a whole pile of them that we have to power through. More...