By Eric Stoller. What can higher education learn from big brands. Read more...
The Media Has Always Been the Opposition Party
By Barbara Fister. And it’s a good thing, too. Read more...
Objectivity, Professionalism, Citizenship
By Barbara Fister. Reporters shouldn't air their personal opinions in public - or so the tradition goes. I see some problems with that. Read more...
Multi-Institution Resource Allocation: A Strategy for Indonesia
By Defta Oktafiga. Since 2014, the Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education has focused on creating world-class universities — an aspiration strongly influenced by globalization and university rankings. Read more...
Bribes Found in Ukraine’s Criminal Code, Literally
By Ararat L. Osipian. Ukraine state security officers arrested a law professor for the systematic extortion of bribes from students in exchange for good grades on examinations. During the search, the officers shook bank notes from the volume containing the criminal code. Read more...
May 1 Law Day: Let's celebrate!
By Tracy Mitrano. May 1 is a United States holiday known as Law Day. Declared in 1958 and formally established in 1961, it was the brainchild of an advisor to President Eisenhower, who designed it to counteract the Soviet Union’s celebration of Worker’s Day. Read more...
The Veneer of Civilization
By Tracy Mitrano. The three most important issues for education this past week, at least to me, were: the status of the DeVos nomination; the incident at UC Berkeley; and Trump’s tweet about that incident. Read more...
It’s Not a Lie
By Tracy Mitrano. All last week, The New York Times, journal of record for the United States together with The Washington Post, focused on Trump’s propensity to utter mistruths. A headline that used the word “lie” became its own media sensation. Read more...
The Importance of Being Relaxed
By Itir Toksöz. As a person who loves her profession in general, I never really found myself saying in the past that I get tired over the course of the academic year. More...