By Joshua Kim. This review is an argument for postsecondary leaders and emerging leaders to put No Ordinary Disruption on your summer reading list. Read more...
Home Ownership, Uberification, and Faculty Employment
By Joshua Kim. In one week, my family will no longer be homeowners. We are downsizing.
With daughter #1 leaving the nest this year, and daughter #2 all set to move to your campus in 2017, our family's housing requirements have evolved. Read more...
EdTech and Supporting Teaching by Teachers
By Joshua Kim. "Do you see a divide in your profession between those who see their work a supporting teaching by teachers and those who see ed tech as a way of replacing teachers in the interests of scale and productivity (and profits). Read more...
What If EdTech Stood With Non Tenure-Track Faculty?
By Joshua Kim. “Faculty are the guardians of the curriculum and student learning.”
“It is necessary now, more than ever, for tenured faculty and non-tenured faculty to work in solidarity.” Read more...
EdTech Advice for Sweet Briar
By Joshua Kim. All of us will have advice for Sweet Briar.
Our IHE community is not stingy in sharing our wisdom. We have an unshakeable belief in the excellence of our own ideas. Read more...
In Praise of Intercity Bus Service
By Joshua Kim. Let me guess. You love trains. Subways, long distance passenger trains, freight rail. Those driverless people movers at the airport (and at West Virginia University). It doesn’t matter. To you, trains are just cool. Read more...
6 Academic Leadership Lessons from Jon Snow
By Joshua Kim. For the three people on the planet who care about Game of Thrones, but who have not yet watched Sunday’s season 5 finale, I’ll attempt to refrain from spoiling anything. Read more...
What Higher Ed Can Learn From Gateway 2000
By Joshua Kim. There was a time in the mid 1990s that if you bought a PC that it was delivered in a box with cow markings. Gateway 2000 was the hot build-to-order direct sales PC maker in the 1990s. This was after everyone stopped buying IBM PC’s, before Dell became hot, and a few years before everyone decided that what they really wanted was a MacBook Air. Read more...
Which Laptop Should My Daughter Bring to College?
By Joshua Kim. My oldest daughter graduated from high school last week. Her MacBook if 4 years old, and is on its last legs. She needs a laptop to bring to college.
What laptop would you recommend for a new college student?
Here are some of her requirements. Read more...
7 Seriously Bad Ideas That Rule Higher Education
By Joshua Kim. "Seriously bad ideas, I’d argue, have a life of their own. And they rule our world.”
Paul Krugman, from Seriously Bad Ideas
“The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some defunct economist.” Read more...