By Jenny Ortiz As a Freeway Flyer I've been able to see the diversity not only within a classroom, but within different colleges, as well. When I…
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By Kat Kiefer-Newman Have you ever been halfway through a lecture and thought: "Wait, didn't I cover this last week?" Maybe it's me, but sometimes the lectures…
By Kat Kiefer-Newman I was late. It almost never happens, but this semester I have an eight o'clock class and it's sometimes difficult to get ready and…
By Kat Kiefer-Newman Do you remember writing those horrible gradeschool essays "What I did for my summer vacation"? I always hated those because we rarely did anything…
By Kat Kiefer-Newman Last time I wrote about recent media coverage of college-aged and recent college-grads (the media has dubbed this group Gen Y and The Millennials).…
This is a longer blog, and I've decided to break it into two parts. I see them shuffle in every semester, this group referred to by the…
by John S. Levin, Susan Kater and Richard L. Wagoner Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2006. 299 pp. $23.50 reviewed by Mark J. Drozdowski I’ve never worked or…
Waiting for the Green I teach at a community college in Iowa. At the end of the Winter Term last year, someone got the idea that we…
by Pamela Weiger WHILE IT MAY ONLY be part of their reason for teaching, pay has become a major issue for part-time instructors at California’s community colleges. The…
by Pamela Weiger WHILE IT MAY ONLY be part of their reason for teaching, pay has become a major issue for part-time instructors at California’s community colleges. The…
