By Tracy Mitrano. Trump and Snowden.
President Trump and Edward Snowden have much in common these days. Taking his cues from the illuminati of Breitbart and Fox News, President Trump has not only announced that President Obama tapped his Trump Tower phone but that the British got involved in it. More...
By World View. The first blog post on The World View was published by Inside Higher Education on June 23, 2010. Liz Reisberg, Research Fellow at the Center for International Higher Education (CIHE), has been editor of the blog since its inception. To date, The World View has published over 300 articles that offer commentary on the state of higher education worldwide, producing an eclectic portfolio of reflection and analysis on issues ranging from the effects of the commercialization of higher education to threats to academic freedom. More...
By Ararat L. Osipian. World class universities require autonomy. It is hard to talk about autonomy in countries where even private, nonprofit universities are subjected to state pressure. More...
By Liz Reisberg. Although I am not a citizen of The Netherlands, I am relieved that Geert Wilders will not be the next prime minister there. I found his anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant rhetoric reprehensible. Likewise, I hope that Marine Le Pen will fail in her election bid to become France’s next president. But my relief is moderated by the fact that Mr. Wilders received 13% of the vote and that Ms. Le Penn could receive 25% or more of the vote in the first round in France. Closer to home, I find it unsettling that Donald Trump still holds a nearly 40% approval rating. More...
By Malissa Phung. Surrounded by friends, friends and family of friends, I attended my first Passover this spring. More...
By University of Venus. Is the purpose of college to ensure a good job after graduation, to provide a broad and deep humanities education, or to create an engaged citizenry. More...
By University of Venus. In order to keep up momentum from our recent posts on the Women’s March and #ADayWithoutAWoman, we asked University of Venus contributors to describe what has been going on on their campuses, particularly with regard to the recent Executive Orders affecting Muslim students and scholars. More...
By Eric Stoller. The CASE Europe Social Media and Community Conference (CASESMC) is one of my favorite education events of the year. This year's event was once again held in the sometimes sunny English seaside town of Brighton. With over a hundred attendees from a variety of countries in Europe and beyond, CASESMC was two days of knowledge/strategy exchange and networking. Read more...
By Eric Stoller. While social media has been used for strategic communications, community building, marketing, and engagement by multitudes of student affairs practitioners, there still exist wide swaths of practitioners (and graduate programs) where digital engagement is still seen as just an option. Read more...
By Akiba Covitz. Fairy tales and truths in higher ed.
Here is the fairy tale version of Higher Ed that some traditionalists still tell themselves, and which has some elements of truth in it (as all fairy tales do). Once upon a time, the players on the academic stage were known, and usually there was just one of them: the professor. More...
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