By Eric Stoller. Before reading this post, please note that I've lived in the UK for less than 5 years...so my knowledge of higher education history "across the pond" is an ever-expanding enterprise. Also, while strategic enrollment management/growth in the US has been around for quite some time, here in the UK, it's still relatively new in terms of the growth aspect. More...
By Eric Stoller. This year marks the third in a row that I will be attending two events within the UK higher education sector that at first glance may appear to be unrelated (at least in terms of attendees). However, as is often the case in HE, both of these conferences definitely complement one another. More...
By Oronte. It was another new year in a strange time. I’d spent 2017 friending, liking, and following the left, the right, the militant, the compliant, the ungodly, the pious, the cheerful, the gloomy, and many others for the next book. My Facebook feed was a hellbroth of voices, but all agreed something had to be done. More...
A tweet went viral among academics on social media. Issued by Nicholas Christakis, Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University, the tweet was a comment to an Inside Higher Ed article from 2014, about a study from Boise State University showing that professors work 60 hours a week. More...
When I read this piece on Making Apprenticeships Work in Inside Higher Ed, I was intrigued by the recommendation to “Shift the mind-set to digital apprenticeships by bringing emerging and fast-growing industries to the table.” More...
The annual Association of American Colleges & Universities Conference ran from January 24-27 and that meant that everyone seemed to be writing about General Education in the week that followed. More...
2U is an online program management company. WeWork is a co-working space company. 2U is using WeWork space to meet learner-workers where they are. The goal is to tap into the lifelong learner market - what we used to call (and sometimes still do) adult ed/professional development/ non credit/ continuing ed. More...
As the revelations about sexual harassment in Hollywood and elsewhere came to light, what I found most disturbing was the institutional culture that tolerated harassment and punished women for speaking out. More...
By Barbara Fister. Help ProPublica document the highly-tailored political advertising that Facebook is hiding from us (unless we're the target audience). More...
By Barbara Fister. I was excited to be part of a symposium in New York, Libraries in the Context of Capitalism, put on by the Metropolitan New York Library Council in their new digs on 11th avenue. More...
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