By Bill Martin Ours is a transient society. We move from place to place, job to job, knowing that home and family are only a phone call or a plane flight or a Facebook post or text message away. It hasn’t always been like that, of course. Until midway through the 19th Century, Americans settled … Continue reading Preserving Worthy History: Our National Trails
The State of Community Colleges
By Michael E. Norris Professor X gave us a pessimistic, even dark view of community colleges in his best-selling book, In the Basement of the Ivory Tower: The Truth About College, based on his experience as one of the huge corps of low-pay, no-benefit, no-tenure, part-time professors who now make up about three-fourths of college … Continue reading The State of Community Colleges