By Matt Reed. On Thursday I got second-hand reports (via the dean of an area) that some faculty reported students having meltdowns in class. More...

By Matt Reed. I’ve been reading Arlie Russell Hochschild’s Strangers in Their Own Land, which is her account of the insights she gleaned on red-state political attitudes by moving to rural Louisiana and living there for five years. More...

By Matt Reed. It isn’t often that a sentence makes me stop, back up, read it again, email the article to my president, and then chew on it for most of a day. More...

By Matt Reed. I’ve read that the hallmark of a great mind is the ability to hold contradictory ideas simultaneously. By that definition, academia is full of great minds. More...

By Matt Reed. Brookdale had its Fall Open House on Sunday. I didn’t have a speaking role, and I dressed for the weekend, so I was able to move about inconspicuously and just listen. More...

By Matt Reed. As a writer, I’ve never understood people who measure time-to-completion of a document in terms of a page count. More...

By Matt Reed. I’ve heard multiple professors over the last few years say that the number of students in their classes who appear to be on the autism spectrum seems to be climbing. More...

By Matt Reed. The real issues aren't about toughening up. More...

By Matt Reed. What if students had the option of skipping remediation entirely? 
The state of Florida has been conducting a forced experiment to answer that. More...

By Matt Reed. The World Series, more on going "full Florida," observations from lower Manhattan. More...