by Diana Senechal Wentworth, MA— During President Jeremiah Nesaispas’s inaugural address, some Wentworth City College faculty were seen twitching and shuddering, especially in the humanities corner of the auditorium. Nonetheless, they resisted interrupting the new president or pelting him with tomatoes. “We believe in human dignity,” philosophy professor Knut Verstandnis commented later, “even the dignity […]

by Con Chapman Lifestyles Editor KEWEENAW, Michigan. It’s 4:30 on a Friday afternoon at Upper Peninsula College here, a time when most people are making their moves to stretch the weekend a little bit longer. But not Theodora Mangel-Wurzel, a Professor at Northeast Missouri State College, who was placed last on the list of speakers […]

by Jack Snap Technology Freelancer In its continuing efforts to stay at the head of the curve of campus innovation, College of the Northsouth is extending its popular online Certificate in Professional Clowning into an on-ground, adjunct-led circus in Spring 2014. “We knew that the adjuncts were expert jugglers,” said yet-another-interim-president, Jerrold Jurgens. “We decided […]

by Con Chapman Lifestyles Editor WELLESLEY, Mass. Brooke Bennett grew up in Green Ridge, Missouri, a tiny but busy farming hamlet nestled among fields of sorghum, lespedeza and timothy, which boasts not one but two full-time village idiots. “It was great to be a kid there,” she says of a childhood spent milking cows and […]

by Teena Angst Freelance Writer A staff bonding activity in which college staff members were encouraged to report what they were actually thinking resulted in a student staff termination and a horribly vulgar word collage last week. Reports have emerged from Beaumont State University that a Housing and Residence Life retreat tricked professionals into being […]

by Monty Tufnel Freelance Writer In another case of personalities and professional differences colliding in the blogosphere, a small group of professors across the country have rallied to the defense of their colleague Dr. Peter Crust after he was called a “Luddite” in a tweet from the VP of Student Services at his institution. It […]

by Joel Pettigrew Freelance Writer Burnout in student affairs took on a whole new meaning last Tuesday at Brighton University after Assistant Director for Student Activities Jay Meyer spontaneously combusted in the middle of Brighton Bingo. Meyer, in his sixth year at Brighton and eighth year in the field, was at the on-campus program at […]

by Con Chapman Lifestyles Editor WASHINGTON, D.C. Concerned by a survey indicating that 60 percent of American college students can name the Three Stooges but only 40 percent can name the three branches of the U.S. government, professional educators today vowed a new emphasis on core knowledge students need to succeed in a global economy. […]

Faculty from LeGree College have won a $1 million collaborative learning grant from the Foundation for Enlightened Educators in order to start a book club. “We have hand-selected a diverse group of tenured faculty to reintroduce themselves to literary classics that could reveal timeless messages about tolerance,” said LeGree’s faculty chair Agnes Haines. “As the […]

by Con Chapman Lifestyles Editor KALISPELL, Montana. Like many who plan to enter the healing professions, Beth Ovashinski is driven by a desire to make the world a better place as well as pay off her student loans. “I’ve wanted to be a doctor since I was a little girl,” she says as strolls the […]