Confessions of a Community College Dean

In which a veteran of cultural studies seminars in the 1990's moves into academic administration and finds himself a married suburban father of two. Foucault, plus lawn care. For private comments, I can be reached at deandad at gmail dot com. The opinions expressed here are my own and not those of my employer.

Thursday, July 11, 2019

Friday Fragments

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From the “sentences I never thought I’d write” file: Earlier this week, I got retweeted by Martina Navritilova. The possibility of tha...
Sunday, July 07, 2019

MAD, We Hardly Knew Ye…

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MAD magazine has announced that it’s fading away, retreating to reissues of old material.  I have to admit, that news hit me hard. I g...
Tuesday, July 02, 2019

The Business Model Problem

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About twice a week I’ll see someone on the interwebs say something along the lines of “why don’t public colleges stop messing around and ...
Monday, July 01, 2019

A Neglected Variable

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The Boy is trying to make money this summer to contribute to his college expenses this fall.  He’s an EMT, and he signed up with a local ...
Sunday, June 30, 2019

Cold Front

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The news from Alaska, about a possible 41 percent cut in state support to the University of Alaska, came as a shock.  The president of th...
Thursday, June 27, 2019

Friday Fragments

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I’m guessing that others have thought of this, though I haven’t seen it done elsewhere.  Does anybody use a learning-community model for ...
Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Revisiting a Favorite

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Chuck Pearson reminded me of this piece from 2012 this week.  Reading my old stuff usually makes me cringe, but this one holds up better ...
Tuesday, June 25, 2019

An Alternate Proposal on Free College and Loan Forgiveness

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It would be difficult to come up with a more destructive policy assumption than the idea that public services should be subject to income...
Sunday, June 23, 2019

Graduation, from a Different Perspective

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Over the last twenty years, I’ve been to over 30 college graduation ceremonies, always in some sort of official role.  DeVry had three ce...
Thursday, June 20, 2019

Yes, But: Humanities at Community Colleges

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The Community College Research Center (CCRC) just issued two reports on the state of the Humanities at community colleges in the US.   On...
Wednesday, June 19, 2019

That First Life Preserver

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What does a good first outreach to a struggling student look like? I have a pretty good idea of what it shouldn’t look like.  In my ow...
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Dean Dad
The cast of recurring characters includes The Wife, The Boy, and The Girl. The Boy is in elementary school. The Girl is in preschool, and queen of all she surveys.
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