By Eric Stoller. This is definitely not the blog post I thought I would be writing this week. However, when I checked Twitter on Wednesday morning I noticed that the #SAchat hashtag was trending. More...
11 juin 2019
Satirical Tweet Causes Epic #SAchat Reaction
Transformative Practice: Student Affairs and the Online Learner
By Eric Stoller. Thoughts on staffing, inclusive language, cross-campus collaboration, communications, and digital engagement. More...
Mexico: Higher Education Under Populism
Despite opposition success in limiting the government’s proposed changes, the outlook for higher education remains bleak. More...
Budget Cuts in Brazil
By making what the minister considers a “very small cut”, it will be impossible for universities to conduct daily operations at even minimal standards of quality. More...
Mexican Higher Education: From Mass to Universal to Compulsory?
Earlier posts in this column have discussed the outlook for higher education in Latin America and last week, Rodriguez Gomez and Maldonado-Maldonado reviewed Mexico’s proposed policies,where last month federal and state legislatures passed Constitutional reforms with major implications for the educational system. More...
Walking Toward the Cliff
Measures recently enacted by the President of Brazil raise serious concerns about the future of higher education. More...
How I Retreat and Regroup
For the last five years or so I've been taking myself on solitary writing retreats at the beginning of every summer. Usually, I have some kind of conceptual problem that I have to solve and that requires both direct contemplation and general rumination while I'm doing other things, but not interrupted by household obligations or interactions even with my beloved spouse. More...
What I'm Reading This Week: May 20, 2019
All of a sudden, it’s summer on my campus and to officially mark the launch of “summer,” it hit 84 degrees in Boston yesterday. More...
Talent Is Abundant
By John Warner. Yes, it's hard to write a 10,000 word magazine piece, but the talent to do it is not rare. More...
The Limits of Economic Analysis
By John Warner. Two stories from yesterday touched on one of my pet topics, namely the limits of economic modes of analysis to explain human behavior in consumer contexts. More...
