By Matt Reed. As longtime readers know, I’m a supporter of Open Educational Resources (OER), and I’m a seasoned veteran of handset-to-handset combat with customer service people at Comcast. That combination is probably why a lawsuit around “inclusive access” textbook arrangements in South Carolina caught my eye. More...

By Matt Reed. The college's unusual approach to its current predicament. More...

By Matt Reed. You’re teaching a class. It has twentyish students, ranging in ability, interest, age, and background. One student seems a little offbeat, but nothing out of bounds. One day, about a month into the course, that student starts rocking back and forth aggressively in his chair, and ignoring requests to stop. More...

By Matt Reed. The Boy is in the “limbo” stage of the college search, and it’s wearing on him.
He has sent out all of the applications he plans to send. Deadlines have passed at many places, so even if he wanted to add more -- which he does not -- the options would be few. More...

By Matt Reed. This week the South Jersey Times published an unsigned editorial that, if taken seriously, could do real harm. It piles misunderstandings, simplistic readings of data, and stereotypes on top of each other in the name of, well, it’s not entirely clear. If I were the editor, I would have sent it back for a rewrite. More...

By Matt Reed. I love this story. A Massachusetts philanthropist, Maureen Wilkins, donated $5 million to Cape Cod Community College. A donation of that size might not be newsworthy at an Ivy, but for a community college of Cape Cod’s size, it’s epochal. More...

By Matt Reed. On Monday I had the chance to speak again at Ross Gittell’s class on community colleges at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. It’s the only class on community colleges offered there, so the students are mostly focused on other areas in higher education. More...

By Matt Reed. The impact of the profit motive.
As longtime readers know, I used to work at a DeVry campus.  It was my first full-time job out of grad school. More...

By Matt Reed. A few years ago, the state of Florida declared that all new high school graduates were college-ready by definition, so they couldn’t be required to take remedial classes. For a year or so afterward, there were some articles detailing the measures that colleges were taking to prepare. More...

By Matt Reed. What’s your favorite campus-based podcast? Better yet, does your campus produce a really good one?
I’m wondering if podcasting could be a new form of outreach for college radio. More...