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on The Slow Path to Adulthood
This fall my husband and I will be moving in with his parents so that we can save money while I embark on a doctoral degree. I just want to say THANK you to my in-laws for having us. We boomerangers need to remember to express our gratitude for free room and board!
posted 2 years, 4 months ago
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on Restructuring Higher Education
Where do community colleges fit in here? I am a teacher at Columbia Gorge Community College, and our state funding has been slashed while enrollment numbers are through the roof. Can the solutions proposed for the four year universities work for community colleges as well?
posted 2 years, 4 months ago
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on Can't We All Just Get Along?
I'm an instructor at a community college in Oregon, and it's hard for me to imagine the animosity between the administration and the union-represented faculty/staff ever going away. I have witnessed members of both "sides" making vitriolic comments about the other, and I'm afraid that stereotypes are so deeply ingrained that cooperation between both groups may never be possible. What can staff (or in my case) faculty members do to facilitate better union-administration relationships?
posted 2 years, 9 months ago
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on Religious Clothing in the Classroom
The part that troubles me the most about this issue is that the headscarf worn by Muslim women implies a woman's inferiority to men. If it can be proved to me without a doubt that women are equal to men in the eyes of Muslims in the US, then I fully support a Muslim's right to wear whatever she chooses. This is an issue of civil rights-- but civil rights about the equality of gender, not freedom of expression.
posted 3 years, 3 months ago
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