By Eric Stoller. A necessary digital capability.
Last week, 3 of my tweets garnered more than 2,000 replies. This was an unusually high number of replies and almost all of them were exceptionally hostile, malicious, offensive, abusive and/or puerile. Read more...
By Eric Stoller. Is that a wombat?
The University of Sydney is massive. As Australia's first university, they enroll 60,000 students and have 300,000 alumni in more than 170 countries. Read more...
By Steven Mintz. Predicting the future is a fool’s game. But it’s a game that remains irresistible – and necessary – if we are to prepare for what lies ahead. More...
By Steven Mintz. It is easy to think that the history of higher education is irrelevant to the challenges that today’s colleges and universities face. After all, as recently as 1870, just 50,000 men and women attended college – just 1.7 percent of the college aged population. Today, in stark contrast, 20.5 million (57 percent female and 17 percent African American, Hispanic, Asian, or Native American) attend a postsecondary institution. That’s over 40 percent of 18 to 24 year olds. More...
By George Veletsianos. Clarifying an argument and a misunderstanding. More...
By Liz Reisberg and Philip G. Altbach. Purdue University, an institution among America’s most respected research universities, has announced it is buying the for-profit Kaplan University. More...
By Nadine Zeeman and Liudvika Leisyte. It is too early to know whether the March for Science portends a collective resistance that will be sustained. More...
By Goolam Mohamedbhai. Over the two decades 1986-2006, student enrollment increased by about four- to eight-fold at a limited number of universities resulting in "institutional massification," not national or regional massification. More...
By Tracy Mitrano. Opinion on the reasons for why President Trump fired FBI director James Comey run the gamut from the President’s fear over the investigation into Russia election influence through loyalty to Director Comey work performance. More...By Tracy Mitrano. This week a colleague called me “Kleenex.” What she meant, jocularly, was that my name is so commonly associated with policy. “I would have preferred Xerox,” was my response, thinking back to law school when I learned about the dilution of trade mark names with these two examples. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
