August 2015
is here. Microsoft is announcing for the end of summer's dog days Windows 10, a
"new" and "free" version of its operating system, called
fittingly a system "d'exploitation" in F
The United
States of America has long described — if not defined —itself as “a nation of
immigrants,” a country enriched by those who would come here seeking an
unrestricted ability t
Spring has
sprung; fall has fell; summer’s here, and it's hotter than usual. Thus spake
the apocryphal poet, using license, in an ungrammatical ditty announcing that,
as the medievalists wrote,
A recent
cover story in Community College Week cited the rebirth under new management of
the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development, NISOD,
originally the brainchild of John Ro
In late March, 2015, Economist magazine reporter Emma
Duncan wrote:
“IF YOU LEARNED that the top dogs
in a particular market were the same as 100 years ago, you would probably
surmise that th
Since
the late 19th Century and the 1886 Haymarket Affair in Chicago, most
of the world has celebrated May Day, the first day of this springtime month, as
Labor Day, when workers are fêted and the
You know it's spring when....
New baby birds, flower buds, shoots of plants and fresh creepy-crawlies proliferate.
Flowering plants replace dead-heads by live ones.
The sunshine is gentle a
Remembrances
of things past but not passed: Are we heading toward a future or not?
The Ides of
April are nearly upon us, and there is nothing as certain as death and taxes,
except, perhap
In the last week before the NCAA
Final Four tournament of men's basketball in Indianapolis, I am wont to wonder at a number
of concurrent and consequent things:
Is this basketball
tourna
“Safe
spaces," writes New York Times Op-Ed contributor Judith Shulevitz,
"are an expression of the conviction, increasingly prevalent among college
students, that their schools should kee
Beware the
Ides of March, sayeth William Shakespeare.
Residents
of the American northeast and mid-Atlantic had not seen their snow-covered
front lawns or roadside curbs for months before
Classified and
certificated: These are two primary categories for personnel at the principal
community college district where I work in California. Secretaries and file clerks,
office workers and m
“Community
colleges," as New York Times "economic scene" columnist
Eduardo Porter wrote on Feb. 18, "are pretty much the only shot at a
higher education for those who don't have th
2015 is
barely a month old, and we already have enough so-called scandals to keep our
teapots tempest-tossed for at least 350 more days. Let's brew these scandals
into educational opportunit
Among
education's buzzwords, "engagement" remains popular, hot, and yet
ill-defined. I will not ask if it remains ill-defined because of its popularity
or hotness; that will be for readers
As another
year comes to a close, another mass of "Top Ten" whatevers is
proffered, published, promoted for popular consumption. Top ten news stories,
top ten sports successes, top ten disast
As December
marches toward Christmas and as the year gallops toward its last days, those of
us who are entangled in the educational end game must once again reflect upon
at least three qu
Just
before Thanksgiving, the great American festival of comestible consumption, the
online news source Alternet has (re)published an Al Jazeera article by Sarah
Kendzior concerning “struct
On
Nov. 16, the New York Times reported that, with regard to evident and
proven sexual abuse by a particular professional player, National Football
League Commissioner Roger Goodell “acknow