A Welcome Reminder Of Why We Do What We Do

Higher education is a twelve month a year, seven-day a week enterprise, but summers feel different. In the summer, students gather and disperse in hard-to-discern patterns. Faculty come and go. Some teach and some are away. The pace shifts for those on campus, compressed for some and leisurely for others. In the summer, administrative, logistical and…

Recasting Remedial Education

Contemporary discussions about remedial education are often cast in the rhetoric of crisis, high cost, and failure. Remedial education, the courses and programs that help students with the basic mathematics, writing, and reading skills necessary to be college ready,  is a long-standing component of many community college students’ lives. In fact, more than half of…