By Matt Reed. It’s still early, but today I heard what will be the Idea of the Week. As with so many, I overheard it when two students were talking to each other in the hallway. More...

By Matt Reed. On Thursday, Brookdale had a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the KEYS recovery high school. It’s alternative high school for students in recovery from addiction, located on our campus.  It’s a response to the alarming damage done by the opiate addiction epidemic. More...

By Matt Reed. I read IHE’s account of the recent meeting of the Council of Independent Colleges with a bit of jealousy.  The CIC, which represents private colleges, has started sponsoring discussions of realistic ways to deal with persistent financial issues. More...

By Matt Reed. When Ford suffered sales declines in the 70’s, it wasn’t because its workforce forgot how to make cars. It was because it was allocating resources according to the rules of the previous decade. The workers wound up paying for the mistake, but for the most part, they weren’t the ones who made the wrong call. More...

Graduate students should view it as another piece of research-based writing -- with themselves as the subject, writes Melissa Dalgleish. More...

Professors, administrators and policy makers actually share a vision about how faculty roles and employment must change. It’s time to implement it, Adrianna Kezar and two colleagues argue. More...