By Joshua Kim. The news coming of this week about Google and The New America Foundation has gotten me thinking about the dangers of digital platform monopolies. More...
Why Digital Technology Is to Higher Ed What Electricity Was to Manufacturing
By Joshua Kim. The next 50 years.
Why haven’t digital technologies transformed higher education. More...
Critique of Century Foundation's OPM Report
By Joshua Kim. The report, which analyzed over 100 agreements between for-profit educational companies and non-profit public institutions, is highly critical of the sector. More...
Why I'm Skeptical That 'Smartphones Destroyed a Generation’
By Joshua Kim. Why today’s amazing college students should give us all some confidence in the future. More...
Supercuts and the Future of (Too Many) Jobs
By Joshua Kim. How a haircut made me wonder if we are worried about the wrong things when it comes automation, robots, and employment. More...
Why this Tiger Mother Supports Affirmative Action
By Joshua Kim. I am a Korean-American mother whose children are in or about to start college. During the college application process, they scorned my short sightedness in choosing our last name. More...
Games of Thrones as a Thinly Disguised Academic Drama
By Joshua Kim. We all know that Game of Thrones is in reality a thinly disguised academic drama. More...
Higher Ed Jobs and ‘The End of Loyalty’
By Joshua Kim. Is postsecondary education following the same employment path as corporate America. More...
The Casual Disparagement of Higher Ed Staff
By Joshua Kim. Staff on our campuses are frequent cited as the reason behind the loss of faculty autonomy and status, as well as the adjunctification of the professoriate. In the perceived zero-sum competition for scarce institutional dollars, staff positions are viewed as diminishing the resources available for faculty recruitment and compensation. More...