By Steven Mintz. To be sure, enrollment in online learning opportunities (MOOCs and beyond) continues to grow. 
By Shira Lurie. Watch any comedian's commencement address and you'll learn that improv rules also make for great life advice. In fact, Tina Fey devoted an entire chapter to the subject in her autobiography, Bossypants. The unique demands of grad school make it unlike almost any other job or course of study. Read more...
By Tracy Mitrano. On September 9 the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York will hear oral arguments for the Microsoft v. United States case. This case concerns a Department of Justice warrant for electronic mail legally served on Microsoft Corporation at its headquarters in Redmond in the course of an investigation of illegal narcotics. Read more...
By Barbara Fister. Both Matt Reed and Joshua Kim have written here about The New York Times’s exposé of Amazon’s work culture, and I can't resist joining them. Dean Dan looked at the issue of “transparency” at work and why that seemingly positive virtue can be problematic. Read more...
By Herman Berliner. I have started visiting colleges with my daughter who is entering her senior year in high school. Now I know she can get an outstanding education at Hofstra but I also know she is looking for an experience away from home. At the end of the process, the choice will hopefully be the college or university that is the best fit with her capabilities, her interests, and her ambitions. Read more...
By Cristal Steuer and Deanna Howes. He’s been named TIME’S “Person of the Year” and has captured the minds and hearts of millions of people around the world—many of whom had given up on the Catholic Church. No matter what your religion, one thing is for sure, everyone is talking about Pope Francis, the first Jesuit pope. So, when the Vatican announced last winter that Pope Francis would be visiting the U.S. in September, the nation’s 28 Jesuit colleges and universities quickly realized that this presented an incredible opportunity to promote their shared Jesuit identity on a national scale. More...By Michael Stoner. If you believed that American colleges and universities are differentiated, I have some bad news. Last week, two Gallup researchers posted about a recent study. More...
By Lee Skallerup Bessette. Last month (oh hello beginning of the semester) a colleague on Twitter asked the provocative question, what if the academic journal article disappeared completely as a genre? What would happen. Read more...
"So you can decide if it's worth borrowing $50,000 to major in Greek philosophy," The Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier reported Rubio as saying. "Because after all, the market for Greek philosophers has been very tight for 2,000 years." Greek philosophy seems to be Rubio's go-to example -- see this article from June. Or this one from March. Or this one from February. Read more...
Following a spate of recent clashes between student newspapers and administrations, a group of national journalism organizations on Thursday announced a boot camp-style training project for student journalists facing censorship or other kinds of adversity. Read more...
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