Senior administrators in ministries and tertiary education institutions are confronted today with unprecedented managerial challenges exacerbated by the fact that the vast majority have academic backgrounds unconnected to higher education management. As such, managerial training targeting tertiary education officials in developing economies has become an increasingly strong feature in cooperative programs in international higher education worldwide. More...

By Matt Reed. Unofficial org charts.
It’s been a month this week, so I’ll focus instead on something positive. More...

By Matt Reed. Population decline is a common problem in the Northeast and Midwest. The Washington Post did a piece a few days ago detailing who’s moving where -- I had to smile at “white people love Colorado” -- that showed that other than New York City and maybe Boston, most of the Northeast is losing population. More...

By Matt Reed. The Boy’s girlfriend is a senior in high school, so she’s in the thick of college applications. She got some disappointing news from one school she really liked, and TB was upset on her behalf. He started muttering about “merit” and admissions, and the unfairness of it all. More...

By Matt Reed. I’ve been impressively nearsighted since childhood, so I’ve spent more than my share of time in optometrists’ offices. They have a mechanism that fits poorly over the face, with which one eye’s view is blocked while the other goes through a series of different lenses, trying to read the chart. More...

By Matt Reed. Okay, the title is a slight exaggeration. But it’s true that the AAC&U has historically been focused largely on four-year colleges and universities. This year I was invited to do a session specifically on community colleges. More...