03 mars 2019

South Africa is failing the rights of children to education and health

The ConversationIs South Africa regularly denying children their right to access education as well as health care on the grounds either of petty bureaucracy or by a misinterpretation of the country’s laws and international obligations. More...

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Why 'The Future Is Asian' Should Inform Your University's Strategy

By Joshua Kim. Can books start campus conversations?
What is your university’s Asian strategy. More...

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7 Reasons Why I Now Have More Web-Based Than Face-To-Face Meetings

By Joshua Kim. To be sure, I still participate in lots of face-to-face meetings.  There is no substitute for some in-person conversations.  And not everyone wants to meet on their computers with webcams and microphones. More...

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Guest Post: A Definition of Academic Innovation

By Joshua Kim. For most of the past 2500 years innovation was understood with a modifier: political innovation, social innovation, technological innovation, etc. The concept of innovation in general is, more than any other in the 21st Century, the dominant ideology behind educational policy and praxis change. More...

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Thinking About 'Massification of Higher Education Revisited’

By Joshua Kim. Why we may be at peak U.S. college, but we are decidedly not at peak global higher education. More...

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Is 'Empty Planet' Too Little Worried About the U.S.?

By Joshua Kim. Climate change? The concentration of wealth and growing inequality?  Robots taking all the jobs?  Our crumbling infrastructure?  Public disinvestment from higher education. More...

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'Merchants of Truth', Journalism, and Higher Ed

By Joshua Kim. Are there lessons from newspapers and new media companies that our colleges and universities should be looking to learn?
Will today’s tuition-dependent residential colleges suffer the same fate as yesterday’s local newspapers. More...

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Elite High Schools and Online Education

By Joshua Kim. How an online high school may help us rethink the traditional “college” experience for undergrads who can’t live on campus. More...

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Why Our Students Should Read 'Police Craft’

By Joshua Kim. Police Craft is written for someone considering a career in law enforcement.  While now a sergeant, Plantinga’s background is that of a street cop in Milwaukee and San Francisco. More...

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Why I Finally Read 'Sapiens'

By Joshua Kim. Sapiens is like one of the meals where an insanely skilled chef takes everything in the fridge and whips up the best meal you’ve ever tasted.  But instead of a refrigerator, Harari is working with the entire supermarket. More...

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