By David Baker. Defining a crisis-management protocol to cope with the president’s leadership style is critical. More...
Words and Walls
By David Baker. A number of years ago, when I was a boy visiting my grandmother in West Berlin, I escaped from the apartment. I loved my grandmother, but an eight-year-old can only stand so many hours of lace doilies and plumb cake. More...
Building a Better Budget
By Minesh Parikh. Budget season is upon us. At colleges and universities nationwide, intensive planning is taking place for Fiscal Year (FY) 2018, with repercussions that will have a profound impact on marketers’ abilities to set ambitious goals—and then achieve them. More...
Four Ideas to Implement Today on Social Media
By Paul Redfern. Given the critical nature that social media plays in our relationships with key audiences, we should all be scanning each other’s posts and popular enterprises outside of higher ed for ideas and inspiration. More...
Meaningful Messaging
By Meg Fowler Tripp. Once you’ve done your research and synthesized what you’ve learned, it’s time to put that knowledge to work: you’re ready to develop a messaging framework that will help you become known for what you want to be known for. More...
Proxy vs. VPN Comparison - What's the difference between VPN and a Proxy
By Paul Korzeniowski. Security individuals and businesses want to protect their systems and make sure that personal and confidential information is not compromised.
To protect themselves, people mostly use two technologies: Proxy Servers and Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
Both provide protection. Proxies are easy to install and provide basic security features while VPNs are more complicated but encrypt information from end to end. More...
The Tipping Point
By Barbara Fister. Milo Yiannopoulos's fall was abrupt. Is there a tipping point for outrageous behavior. Read more...
Something Amazing from JSTOR Labs
By Barbara Fister. A quick note: I've been working with an intern to track some research down, but the keywords are slushy and the controlled vocabulary in the databases we're using just hasn't been cutting it. Read more...
Why I Can't Get Behind the Middlebury Statement
By Barbara Fister. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in the value of exploring ideas you don’t agree with. I believe in the value of the Freedom to Read Statement, formulated and adopted during the McCarthy era by publishers and librarians who pushed back against the then-dominant idea that those who associated with the wrong ideas should be investigated in a cloud of suspicion that could get a person fired or worse. More...
Matter of Facts
By Barbara Fister. Remember “truthiness”? Stephen Cobert, in his parodic role of a brash conservative talk show personality, coined it in 2005 and it seemed to nail a fact of political life: politicians often said things that seemed true, that felt true, that appealed to an audience as true while sliding off to one side of demonstrable facts. Read more...