The Regionalist Temptation
Will the Election Hamper International Student Recruitment?
By Megan Brenn-White. My clients around the world are asking me this very question. Within two days of the election, I had a European schedule a call to talk about how/if they could handle messaging to attract US students who may not want to study in the US or international students who may be looking at other options. More...
Make a Gift, Build a Brand (Internally)
By Rob Zinkan. For a university’s brand strategy to be focused, authentic, compelling, differentiating, and enduring, it must be built from the inside out. Faculty and staff are both creators and consumers of the institutional brand, and they should be an essential part of any brand development process. More...
2016 GradHacker Holiday Gift Guide
By GradHacker. Last-minute shopping ideas for the grad student in your life. It’s that time of year again. Have a graduate student on your holiday shopping list and need a last-minute gift idea? Our GradHackers have a few suggestions for you. More...
Making Positive Changes in the New Year
By Heather VanMouwerik. Every year on Christmas Eve, I (or Neil Gaimen) read Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, a short novel about Ebenezer Scrooge and the three ghosts who visit him. Read more...
December Musings
By Tracy Mitrano. For most of my adult life, at least after I married and had children, I could pretty much predict in one December what I might be doing in the next. Like a liturgical calendar, my life had a circular rhythm. Read more...
American Cloaca: At Standing Rock, Part 2
By Oronte. My life in the hothouse of academe has been all Miracle-Gro and perlite, so I decided to toughen my root ball by heading out to Standing Rock, North Dakota, to see how the Native American Water Protectors and their allies were faring and what would happen if a couple thousand vets longing for action, whatever that might mean, met the forces of militarized corporatism. Read more...
Online Learning Confusion In an Otherwise Excellent 'Revenge of Analog’
By Joshua Kim. Why do smart people continue to get higher education so wrong. Read more...
A Visual Guide to My 2016 Year in Reading
By Joshua Kim. I’m thinking that my invitation to participate in the NYTimes Year In Reading was accidentally sent to Newt Gingrich. Read more...