By Lee Skallerup Bessette. What is our ethical obligation to graduate students?
We’ve all been there: you are sitting across the table from a brilliant, highly-achieving undergraduate student when they tell you what you may have suspected; they are considering graduate school. More...
By Lee Skallerup Bessette. A little more than two years ago, I wrote a post in this space about our family getting a dog and what that meant to me both personally and professionally. More...
By John Warner. Obvious, no doubt, but sometimes I need reminding of the obvious.
As I type I am flying home from my first ever mid-semester vacation. Read more...
By John Warner. Two stories in my news:By John Warner. I am reflexively wary of buzzwords. Any mention of “adaptive software” sets my teeth grinding. Whenever I hear the phrase “college and career ready,” I’m tempted to light myself on fire. Read more...
By John Warner. I am concerned about the declining quality in our higher education lobbyists.
My worry was triggered by yesterday’s Inside Higher Ed commentary from Terrell Halaska, a former Bush administration Department of Education official and founding partner of HCM Strategists, which, best I can tell from the corporate gobbledygook on their website is a lobbying/consulting combo platter. Read more...
By Eric Stoller. If you haven't become a frequent visitor/participant on reddit, you're missing out. Reddit is a super active, information-rich web community. Any topic that you want to learn more about is present. I've been on reddit for 7 years, met the site's founder Alexis Ohanian a few years ago, and generally agree that reddit is indeed the "front page of the Internet." Read more...
By Eric Stoller. When I wrote a post on Connecting Technology Buckets in Student Affairs last year, I asked any and all technology companies to share their thoughts on connecting disparate data "buckets" in higher education. 14 comments later, a variety of comments and ideas were presented. Read more...
By Matt Reed. Kellie Woodhouse's story yesterday about Wagner College and its plans to shrink strategically should be required reading for people at teaching-intensive institutions in the Northeast, and for the politicians who decide on budget allocations. More...
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