Setting new deadlines for community college success

During my brief, pleasant college teaching career — three semesters of Introduction to Print Newswriting at USC’s J-school — I expected my students to meet all their deadlines.
That’s what we do in the news biz, after all. That’s why they created deadlines in the first place: The presses roll, and they do so at a time certain, and if you don’t file en punto, your story misses the paper.
So when I wrote in my syllabus that the midterm was on such and such a dat