Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 17, 2023

The Internet Archive, a nonprofit library in San Francisco, has grown into one of the most important cultural institutions of the modern age. For the sake of libraries and library users everywhere, let’s hope they don’t succeed. and Penguin Random House assert that the Internet Archive is not a real library.

Libraries 145

Libraries Nonprofit Organizations Entertainment Research 145

Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Among her many roles at KSU is Library Data Coordinator. Laurel is, therefore, well positioned to answer some of the questions that I posed in my piece, How Do Academic Libraries Spend Their Money? Q1: Can you help us understand the (perhaps evolving) relationship between budgets, materials, and staffing?

Libraries 81

Libraries Computers and Informational Technology Grants and Contracts Marketing and Communication Services 81

Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 11, 2023

The Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative “was created to address racist terms historically used in IT, such as ‘master’ and ‘slave’ to describe aspects of systems,” Gallagher wrote in a statement. But the university pulled back more in January by removing the guide from its website.

Libraries 120

Libraries Federal Government Management IT 120

Parchment

JANUARY 30, 2024

education system, which is what we’re using as our measuring stick, then how are you going to interpret? So you can’t use those. And even for those of us who’ve been doing this for decades, for like myself. So evaluators have to really be alert and informed of the terminology used in that education system.

Computers and Informational Technology 52

Computers and Informational Technology Admissions Medical Education 52

eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

I’ll be developing and calling out tags I use for these themes so that you can go to an archive page on each one. But our core educational values—that each learner deserves individual attention and encouragement, and that education should nourish the entire person and not simply provide short-term skills—must be preserved.

Development and Fund Raising 67

Development and Fund Raising Research Budget and Finance Management Higher Education 67

Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 23, 2022

It’s these long-term developments, processes and trends, which take place under the surface, that even the most powerful politicians or institutions must respond to. Intensifying these problems is that the many alternate employment options—in law, journalism, publishing, libraries and archives and museums—are also shrinking.

Higher Education 110

Higher Education Education Development and Fund Raising Admissions 110