By Joshua Kim. The template for all future campus-based cross-institutional summer gatherings was probably laid down by the Dartmouth 1956 Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence. More...
23 août 2018
23 août 2018
5 Reasons Why Alt-Acs Need Campus Writing Retreats
By Joshua Kim. Career paths, time, community, costs, and academic freedom. More...
23 août 2018
The Challenges of Creating World-Class Universities in China
The obsession with internationalization had resulted in priority being given to overseas scholars and graduates and has diminished graduates of many top domestic universities to second or third-class status. More...
23 août 2018
Dramatic Instability in International Higher Education
The sudden rise in nationalism and populism in many countries has implications for higher education. More...
23 août 2018
Higher Education Crisis in Taiwan
Taiwanese higher education has gone from elite to universal enrollment within only few decades. More...
23 août 2018
The Other Use of Standardized Tests
By Matt Reed. I never acquired a taste for basketball, despite The Boy having spent years playing it. But he did, so I’ve spent plenty of time at his games, and have taken him to college games. It’s a running joke with us that whenever we watch elite teams -- either high-level college teams in person, or pro teams on tv -- I groan whenever a player misses a free throw. It’s even worse when a player at that level misses two in a row. More...
23 août 2018
The Eye in the Sky
By Matt Reed. Technological progress has been great for nostalgia. Anyone over 40 (maybe 30?) knows the experience of going down a rathole on YouTube, seeing clips from shows you watched as a kid and having the uncanny sense of vague recognition combined with abject horror that you once thought they were good. More...
23 août 2018
“Netflix for Books"
By Matt Reed. A major textbook publisher has announced an all-you-can-eat subscription version of textbook purchasing. A student pays a set rate per semester, and has unlimited access to new copies of the latest books provided by that publisher. It’s being touted as a major money-saver for students, and in some cases, it probably is. More...
23 août 2018
The Attention Problem
By Matt Reed. Melinda Karp’s article about colleges struggling to move from reform proposals to actual implementation struck a chord with me. I’ve been in the “why don’t they see it?” position enough times to have obsessed about this for a while. More...
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