It's almost May. The weather has changed and it's making me think ahead. I'm already planning my meager summer vacation. Most of this summer I'll be desperately working 8 and 9 hour days getting my dissertation finished so I don't have to face my scary...
Katherine Kiefer-Newman
By Kat Kiefer-Newman From their laptops, their Blackberries, their iPhones, and now their iPads they Tweet. They Tweet in the library, the parking lot, walking along the pathways, in the.
By Kat Kiefer-Newman I'm no Cupid. There are some things I am very good at, but I am seriously no Cupid. Nor am I a Yenta, a Mi-Ai, a Sensale,.
By Kat Kiefer-Newman I went to a job fair recently. The CCC Registry (California Community Colleges Registry) just had one in L.A. and my dear friend Emma and I optimistically packed up our curriculum vitae with the best of intentions. Attitude is everything at these academic...
By Kat Kiefer-Newman Yesterday was the California Shake-Out. This feels like a statewide acknowledgment that the world really will end in 2012 (the year that the Mayan calendar ends), and.
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 out of the.
By Kat Kiefer-Newman Welcome back, Adjuncts! Does it feel welcome at your institution(s) of higher learning? My classes began this week at both schools - that's never happened before - and it's been a week of saying "no" to a constant stream of pleading, begging,...
I watched my youngest graduate from high school and, while I was extremely proud of her, it was a bittersweet moment for me. Proud, because of her many accomplishments and.
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). The media seems.
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 label-makers as Gen Y or The Millennials. The Millennials in my Community College classes, though, don't look like...
