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“As a professor, I regularly get documentation of students with this or that disorder. I have to accommodate them, and rightfully so. But what about my accommodations?”
A student makes the case for earning a degree before transferring from a two-year college.
A professor’s idea for a college trip gets altered by the bureaucratic powers that be.
Gene Fant recalls some search deliberations in which a candidate’s name came into play.
An adjunct explains why she won’t do extra work free.
Rob Jenkins is surprised to find that his students who didn’t place out of a basic college English course actually turned out to be better writers than their supposedly more college-ready counterparts.
Allison Vaillancourt wonders how to tell if a request is sincere and when it’s simply a guise for obtaining recognition and a pat on the back.
‘Tis the season for time wasting, Gene Fant says.