25 février 2018
25 février 2018
'Why Do I Have to Take This Class?'
25 février 2018
The Many Faces of Transfer
By Matt Reed. Ashley Smith has a terrific piece in IHE this week about the importance of the ‘transfer’ function of community colleges. She addresses -- correctly -- the fact that many jobs that pay decently require a bachelor’s degree or higher, and that students who start at community colleges and go on tend to be more diverse racially and economically than students who start at four-year schools. More...
25 février 2018
Civic Engagement at Community Colleges
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...
25 février 2018
Friday Fragments - February 2, 2018
25 février 2018
Late Registration: You Make the Call!
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...
25 février 2018
The Two-Body Problem Revisited
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...
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