Foster also reflects the frustrations which so many colleges feel about the structures imposed on them, which often hinder rather than help our services to learners.

I can understand his frustrations, ... But this is a delicate situation. We don't want to go in there gung-ho and get somebody hurt.

I can understand his frustrations. But this is a delicate situation. We don't want to go in there gung-ho and get somebody hurt.

We were proactive then and imposed the sanctions on ourselves that we still feel were sufficient. That's where we are today.

A few days after I began my short story, I returned to his desk and handed him my updates. He pushed his wire-rimmed reading glasses way down on his nose and focused on the two pages. “Okay, you got a beginning; you got yourself a middle and an end. You got a wing-dinger opening line. But you don’t have an establishing paragraph. Do you know what that is?”
He didn’t wait for me to answer.
“It’s kinda like an outdated road map for the reader,” he said. “It gives the reader a general idea of where you’re taking him, but doesn’t tell him exactly how you intend to get there, which is all he needs to know.

Need to troll, need not to hinder, yes to roll. Not to be fully fooled, or else, you'll regret swimming at the pool wearing ugly hood.