By Steven Mintz. I’ve worked in higher education my entire life. As a staff member of two fine institutions, I’ve had roles in academic publishing, communications and media relations, online learning, and academic support. More...
11 juin 2019
11 juin 2019
Strategies for Improving Student Success
By Steven Mintz. Enrollment isn’t colleges’ biggest problem. It’s completion. It’s still the case that nearly a third of students at four-year institutions don’t have a degree after six years. And these students disproportionately come from lower-income backgrounds. More...
11 juin 2019
What They Say and What it Really Means
By Steven Mintz. Perhaps you remember a feature in Mad Magazine: “What They Say and What It Really Means.” It’s an approach worth applying to the discourse of innovation. More...
11 juin 2019
Reimagining In Loco Parentis
By Steven Mintz. Reinventing the college-student relationship in the era of helicopter parenting. More...
11 juin 2019
How I Became a Librarian
By Barbara Fister. As the year finishes and the library becomes quiet, I find myself thinking about how I became a librarian. More...
11 juin 2019
Leaving Las Vegas
By Barbara Fister. You can’t take a “what happens in Las Vegas” approach to online speech. More...
11 juin 2019
Not So Fast!
By Barbara Fister. Yes, digitization has changed the way we search, but students have always struggled to make knowledge out of information. More...
11 juin 2019
Promises, Promises
By Barbara Fister. All of the tech giants are suddenly into privacy. Apple started it, fighting off a federal demand to decrypt a phone and break a promise to their customers that their data, if not stored in the cloud, is secure, even from Apple. More...
11 juin 2019
Exploring Creativity in Graduate School
Research is a creative endeavor; oftentimes graduate students are looking at something that has never been looked at before, or approaching something from a completely different perspective. More...
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