I‘ve worked at my alma mater for 19 years, creeping slowly from part-time, grant-funded, benefit-less, four-figure-annual-salary-earning pawn to bona fide, fully vested, state-pin-owning Director of Decision Support (a Monty Python-worthy title if ever there was one). On my beloved campus, I have lived through fire, flood, furlough days, earthquake, snow, ice, mice, bee swarms, iguanas … More How to Win Halloween
I recently returned from a professional conference where I most definitely did not feel a lot of winning. While I’ve worked at my institution for almost two decades, I’m new to the field of Institutional Research. On the one hand, back in the day, I did minor in social sciences, earned an A in statistics, … More Me Vs. the Machine
This weekend, most of the state of South Carolina lived through three months’ worth of rain in three days, like some kind of time-compressing movie montage gone awry. I realize that all the post-apocalyptic shows and novels I’ve consumed in the course of my lifetime really paid off for me, because when the weatherman said the … More A Water-Logged and Wimpy Win
Maria Linn 