Confessions of a Community College Dean

From the “sentences I never thought I’d write” file: Earlier this week, I got retweeted by Martina Navritilova.
The possibility of that never occurred to me.
The joys of social media…

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 grew up on the MAD of the 1970’s and early 1980’s (which already included generous recycling of material from the 1960’s).  That was pretty much its peak, in terms of readership and cultural weight, and it made sense that it was. As I like to tell...

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 just fix their business model?  It’s obviously unsustainable!” Bryan Alexander had a more thoughtful version of that...

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 private EMT company to work for it. He has gone through orientation and training, and a host of hoops, but is still...