By Matt Reed. Brookdale had a student speakout this week, as it does a couple of times per year. Student government organizes it, with support from student activities. I attended, along with the president, the deans and the folks from IT and student affairs. We attend every year. More...

By Matt Reed. For reasons unknown, I have a history of closed college day-care centers in my wake. Readers of a certain age may remember Angela Lansbury’s character Jessica Fletcher, from Murder, She Wrote; wherever she went, somebody died. After a while, it was a wonder that she ever got invited anywhere. She was never the killer -- although that could make for some amazing fan fiction -- but she was around an awful lot of murders. More...

By Matt Reed.Looking for tips.
This one is aimed particularly at people who work at community colleges. More...

By Matt Reed. I’m old enough to remember when “left to their own devices” simply meant “ignored.” Now the meaning is much more literal. More...

By Matt Reed. I don’t have much time for horror movies. I’d rather do a comedy, even a dumb one, than watch some cretin in a hockey mask wield a chain saw. It’s just not fun to watch people suffer. More...

By Matt Reed. As an instructor, I was never entirely sold on the multiple-choice format for tests. I would sometimes have a small section of it on an exam to test really basic factual knowledge -- how many senators does each state get -- as a sort of reality check, but it wouldn’t count for much. Life rarely comes at you in multiple-choice format, so it seemed kind of silly. More...

By Matt Reed. This has been burning up the interwebs for all the right reasons. A tip o’ the cap to Lauren Robel, EVP and provost at Indiana University at Bloomington. It’s her response to some hateful, stupid, racist statements by a tenured professor there. More...

By Matt Reed. As this New York Times profile of an organization called ImpactMatters notes, the usual question of nonprofits is the percentage of costs spent on “overhead.” The question is well intended, but at a basic level, it misses the point. Lowering overhead is not the purpose of an organization. More...

By Matt Reed. Apparently, the state of Utah is phasing out academic merit scholarships, while leaving athletic scholarships intact. The ostensible idea is to redirect resources toward need-based aid. More...

By Matt Reed. As longtime readers know, one of my favorite New Jersey sentences is “you catch the Dinky by the Wawa.”  Grown people say that. (The Dinky is a train in Princeton; Wawa is a convenience store.) I smile every single time I hear it. More...