by Adisa Lasesco When I was a young, wild-eyed graduate student at a small Midwestern university, I was given the opportunity to substitute for a professor away…
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by Chris Cumo With a Ph.D. in Victorian Literature from CUNY, Christina Boufis set her sights on a research university. But expectations fell when the job search stalled, and she…
by Arlene Levinson WHEN VERONICA RUIBAL returned to class at Nassau Community College in September, she trained at one hospital, worked nights at another, battled Long Island traffic to shuttle…
The Secretary of State’s Office said the commission in charge of Oregon’s 17 community colleges needs to improve student achievement and access by Alex Baumhardt The commission…
Newest California study finds students are 11% less likely to pass an online version of the same class. by Jill Barshay Here’s an unusual case where scholarly…
Understanding the relative impacts of part-time adjuncts in community colleges is highly policy-relevant, partly because community colleges rely on part-time faculty heavily and partly because community colleges…
A bold and controversial plan to merge all 12 Connecticut community colleges into one would shrink the system by 217 positions (mostly adjunct faculty) and $23.3 million…
Student loan default rates have doubled over the last decade, and new research from Adam Looney of the U.S. Treasury Department and Constantine Yannelis from Stanford University,…
By Dorinda Fox "Actors understand the infinite vastness hiding inside each human being, the characters not played, the characteristics not revealed. Schoolteachers can see every day that,…
by Dorit Sasson Over the past year I’ve received dozens of emails from instructors asking me for advice on teaching ESL students in their college reading courses.…