By Matt Reed. On the train to DC for the Middle States conference, I caught up on a few podcasts. More...

By Matt Reed. Michael Bloomberg has rightly attracted attention for donating $1.8 billion to Johns Hopkins University for financial aid for low- and middle-income students, and for ensuring that JHU’s admissions remain “need-blind” for the foreseeable future. More...

By Matt Reed. Should a college have a single college-wide attendance policy. More...

By Matt Reed. Anything that delays grades creates issues. More...

By Matt Reed. Reading today that Amazon’s HQ2 New York location will receive over a billion dollars in tax incentives, having spent my day scouting locations for a campus food pantry for students who can’t afford lunch, was just a bit much. More...

By Matt Reed. One of the more effective ways to help adult students accelerate their degree programs is through prior learning assessment (PLA). It takes various forms, but the most common one is credit through some sort of exam. More...

By Matt Reed. Trying to balance equity and access in a society that isn’t equitable. More...

By Matt Reed. On Wednesday I had the opportunity to attend a screening of “Fail State” at Princeton, and to participate in a panel discussion afterwards. It’s a terrific documentary about for-profit colleges, in which community colleges play the role of the good guy. More...

By Matt Reed. The recent IHE article about online classes rang true. In the two-year sector, for instance, it showed that online enrollments are up, even as overall enrollments in the sector are down. That has been true locally for years. More...

By Matt Reed. Voting beats the alternative. Do it, even if you have to use just one well-chosen finger. More...