By Joshua Kim. Redefining the non-mobile academic (faculty and non-faculty) career.
Many academics (faculty and non-faculty) have no plans to go anywhere. More...

By Joshua Kim. This week two stories caught my attention. The first story is about the closing of the Memphis College of Art (MCA). The second story is about the WyzeCam, a new $20 internet connected security camera. More...

By Joshua Kim. My happiest moments come when I’m able to watch a sporting event - either live or on TV - with an audiobook playing in my ears. Living in a college town affords me frequent opportunities to attend high level sports for shockingly low costs. At every live basketball, soccer, hockey, field hockey, or football game (the teams I follow), I’ll listen to an audiobook while watching the game. More...

By Joshua Kim. Higher education people don’t agree on much. We have passionate arguments about everything from the proper role of technology in learning to how we might treat our (perhaps?) self-inflicted cost disease. More...

By Joshua Kim. Is big data really changing everything? Economist and former Google data scientist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz thinks so. Not only is big data altering the landscape of advertising (Google and Facebook) and retail (Amazon), big data has the potential to revolutionize the social sciences. More...

By Joshua Kim. What would Homo Academicus make of Tasha Eurich’s insightful new book Insight? Ideally, Insight should have us all deeply worried. Realistically, maybe not so much. More...