Campus Workers Hold Clues to Higher Ed’s Trust Problem

Campus Workers Hold Clues to Higher Ed’s Trust Problem

Do colleges do enough to support staff in their unofficial roles as mentors and confidants?  I emerged from my editor’s den in Washington, D.C., this week to speak to faculty, staff and administrators at Eastern Washington University. I don’t visit campuses enough and was charmed by the welcome carefully laid out for students: freshly cut grass, newly mulched flower beds, the uniform hue of EWU red on every banner, sign and bus stop. Even the fo…