By Matt Reed. In 2016, if you didn’t know there was an election going on, you wouldn’t have known it from student conversations on campus. In 2017, as New Jersey elected a new governor, I never heard a single student conversation about it, even as the winning candidate ran on a “free community college” platform. More...

By Matt Reed. Professional development; President Trump's latest; more. More...

By Matt Reed. Baseball fans of a certain age will remember Mel Allen’s narration of This Week in Baseball, and its recurring feature, You Make the Call. They’d show a tricky or rare play, and not reveal the correct umpire’s call until after the commercial break. As an impressionable kid, I remember being struck at how unfair some of the correct calls seemed, but it was great fun to try. More...

By Matt Reed. A piece I wrote over four years ago got new life this week on Twitter It was about the “two-body problem” in higher ed, or the expectation that anyone trying to break into the faculty ranks should expect, as a matter of course, to be willing to drop everything and move anywhere they could get work. If that wreaks havoc on intimate relationships, well, so be it; the job is supposed to come before everything. More...

By Matt Reed. The start of a discussion about student poverty.
On Monday I was able to participate in the “Basic Needs Insecurity in New Jersey Higher Education” conference at Rutgers. More...

By Matt Reed. The best part of blogging, for me, is being able to draw on other people’s solutions to problems that many of us face. This is one of those. More...