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Posts Tagged ‘community colleges

No Parking

Posted by: annieem on: September 29, 2009

As Dead (good lord, Annie, get some sleep) Dean Dad has noted, the enrollment boom at community colleges is fairly widespread.  Despite creating/enlarging two parking lots, and partnering with a church down the way to allow for overflow parking (with a shuttle bus running back and forth), parking is more abysmal than ever.
On the upside, [...]

Summertime Blogging

Posted by: annieem on: May 26, 2009

The Academic Blogosphere (the blogging world in which I live) seems to go on semi-hiatus once classes end—or at least once they end for you semester system schools. We on the quarter system are still plugging away for 2 more weeks. Interestingly, I’ve found few community college instructors who are bloggers (as is also true with [...]

Community: College for Losers?

Posted by: annieem on: May 6, 2009

Big news in the community college world: loser struggling station NBC has announced a new sitcom for the fall called “Community” starring Chevy Chase as an older, lecherous, student in a Spanish study group. 
You can watch a 4-minute preview here 
If you watch the promo, note the gorgeous cafeteria with all the windows: this is a [...]


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Annie Em is a professor of English who, like oodles of other academics, blogs about her work, her readings, her life. E-mail Annie at annieem [at] ymail [dot] com or leave a comment.

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