Books
Postcards From Pillston:
Reflections On America's Crappiest College
​Mitch Mildoo proudly presides over Pillston College, a small New England school firmly entrenched at the bottom of the academic barrel. Whatever can go wrong at Pillston usually does, and it’s Mitch’s job to clean up the mess.
But hope lies on the horizon thanks to the college’s new star quarterback, who happens to have an uber-wealthy father.
Can Mildoo and his colleagues land a transformational donation and save the college from financial ruin? Will Pillston finally vanquish archrival Buckman College in the annual Granite Pot game?
With his curious grasp of the English language, Mildoo tells Pillston’s story amid discussions of college admissions, soaring tuition costs, athletics, branding and marketing, tenure and academic freedom, rankings, the curriculum, closures and mergers, the pandemic, and online learning, detailing just how woefully “The Pill on the Hill” fares on every measure.
Postcards from Pillston offers a satirical, timely take on today’s higher education landscape, revealing the loser’s perspective on critical issues shaping
university life in America.
A Peculiar Calling: Confessions of a College Fund Raiser
iUniverse, 2008
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For seven years, Mark J. Drozdowski has shared his insight, wit, wisdom and humor as "The Fund Raiser," a monthly column in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Here in one complete volume are his first 80 columns, dating from 2001-2008. Discover how Drozdowski tackles such knotty issues as minority scholarships, massive endowments, billion-dollar megacampaigns, professional certification, donor relations, campus politics, career advancement, alumni communications, and management and leadership. Join him as he fumbles his way on the golf course, on the racquetball court, on the ski slopes and at the billiard hall. Experience life on the road and meet characters such as Bill Daly, Dan Dinero, Eva Dents, Bill Fold, Mr. Whirlybird and Massachusetts Fats. Above all, learn how fund raising has reshaped American higher education and how money influences important decisions. Drozdowski draws on 17 years of toiling in the trenches of philanthropy, finding humor and purpose in every day. With an unmistakable voice, Drozdowski weaves a story of one man's journey through seven years of learning and living the peculiar life of a college fund raiser.
Insider's Guide to Graduate Programs in Education
Simon & Schuster, 1997
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Profiles graduate programs in education at nearly three hundred colleges and universities in the United States.
