Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Count on The New York Post to come up with the tabloids’ most incendiary headlines and news article leads. As Noam Chomsky, the great linguist and political activist, has put it, a higher education should never be about brainwashing, indoctrination or propagandizing.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma. Instead, most courses are filled with folks who already have a bachelor’s, which isn’t surprising because the courses tend to be fairly rigorous and most are designed for skills-building or for professionals dipping their toes back into higher ed.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma “America,” the headline of New York Times opinion column by David Brooks blares, “should be in the middle of a schools revolution.” In fact, the issues of equity and achievement may be even worse than his op-ed suggests.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 2, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Hollywood has largely abandoned one of its late 20 th , early 21 st century staples: The laugh-until-you-cry college comedy. In consequence, I believe a big part of my job is to alter their opinion by engaging and motivating them and demonstrating that history isn’t one damn fact after another.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 22, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma In 1934, a year after Hitler’s ascent to power, Ernst Jünger, a World War I storm trooper, published an essay rejecting liberal, bourgeois society’s embrace of security, ease, pleasure, and comfort. Pain, like loss, is one of the hallmarks of human existence.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Ethicists, so the joke goes, use logic and reasoned judgment to undercut the public’s moral intuitions and to question religion’s ethical injunctions. We need to show a due regard and a decent respect for other people’s feelings, opinions, and traditions.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The early 19th century witnessed the rise of a new life stage. College is linked to greater civic involvement and higher rates of voting. But what do undergraduates truly take away from college?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Ours is the golden age of creative nonfiction – a genre that recounts personal stories, memories, experiences, and observations using the literary techniques typically associated with fiction – voice, style, language, imagery, narrative, and more.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Outrageous. Consider an opinion piece , entitled “Newsrooms that move beyond ‘objectivity’ can build trust,” that just appeared in the Washington Post. Outlandish. Mendacious, malevolent, misleading. Dishonest, disingenuous, deceitful. Skewed, slanted, shoddy.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 25, 2023

But as the Russian invasion of Ukraine has made vividly clear, the alternative to a Pax Americana resting upon complex alliances, overseas investments and international educational, financial, health, legal and trade institutions isn’t at all clear. Naomi Oreskes and Erik M.

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