Special Events Assistant Description Serve on planning team to develop a high quality special events menu including conferences, webinars and speaking engagements. Tasks would include feasibility exploration, site identification, logistical planning and execution. Perks could include travel. Qualifications Excellent communication skills (proven, not just claimed) A personality as warm as my mom’s chocolate pudding Experience [...]

Staff Assistant Description Want to help CronkNews.com with general duties but not sure the specific positions we’ve listed are for you? Eager to help but not sure what sort of time commitment you can realistically make? Tell us about your talents and ideas. From editorial assistance to administrative support, tell us what sorts of holes [...]

Publicity Assistant Description Design and execute creative publicity outreach and campaigns to promote an ever-growing universe of CronkNews.com, Cronk-hosted events, Cronk speakers bureau and merchandise. Qualifications Proven networking skills (preference for someone who understands PR networks in higher education) Kick-ass writing and marketing skills Oodles of creativy and ability to efficiently turn ideas into reality [...]

Staff Writers Description We need more writers! The core editorial staff at CronkNews.com has decided that giving birth to twins, moving across the country and working on dissertations are reasonable excuses for writing less. We need some additional smarties to write, illustrate or make videos for The Cronk of Higher Education. Staff writers would have [...]

Undergraduate Beat Satirists Description CronkNews.com would like to expand its base of freelance writers and we’d particularly like to tap the people who know students best – students. If you know brilliant snarky students with an edge of nonconformity and an eye for hypocrisy, please encourage them to submit articles, cartoons or videos. Qualifications Smart [...]

Following one of the most heated sessions in Staff Senate history at Forest Springs University, representatives voted to change the menu of the annual faculty/staff picnic from the traditional hamburger/hot dog spread to grilled chicken. “These are decisions that can’t be taken lightly,” said librarian Clara Scully, who represents the pro-hot dog voting block. “I [...]

by Brody K. Truce Senior Staff Writer “We were receiving a lot of complaints from faculty about students using too many exclamation points and question marks,” said David Herrera, Vice Provost of Academic Affairs. The complaints led to a joint investigation launched by Academic Affairs and the college’s IT department. The findings were astounding. “During [...]

by Hannah Q. Scott Freelance Writer This week in Student Affairs: Elenchus University is trying a new tactic in hiring a director of residence life. Elenchus U is planning a full nationwide search instead of naming an interim director that will eventually become permanent. “We just couldn’t continue to populate the upper echelons of student [...]

by Anselmo Watkins Freelance Writer In the latest move designed to minimize the potential for confrontation between faculty/administration and the staff that work for them, the University of El Dorado Office of the President announced Tuesday that they will institute a new system-wide personnel policy that borrows liberally from the Indian caste system. Beginning September [...]

Personal Protection (within campus perimeter only) Date: 2010-03-14, 11:28AM EST Reply to: mailto:job-cronk-8037179008@craigslist.org Are you administrators tired of having your ideas and initiatives shot down because you don’t get any respect? Do you live in fear of being fired for doing the right thing? Sick of job instability because you work on a year-to-year contract? [...]