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A column by a British (sometime-) academic may point the way toward research opportunities for American universities. George Monbiot has...

Sub-critical mass

Erin O’Connor, an English prof at Penn, blogs about higher ed, sometimes from a position politically to the right of...

Choir, please disregard

If we keep doing what we’ve been doing, we’ll keep getting what we’ve been getting. What most of us have...

Bifurcated Budget Begets Bad Buildings

It’s said that the modern university consists of a large number of academic and administrative departments united by a common...

Pet Peeve #1

I’m not sure what my pet peeves #2 through n are, but I’m sure I’ll figure it out in time...

Computing in Color

In days of old, when students were bold, computers were both more impressive and less powerful. They also generated a...

Snow Days

Blizzards in the Northeast have forced colleges to cancel classes and given students a chance to show off their creativity.

Bag it! (or don't)

Kind of on the heels of the (no) dining hall trays idea: I just saw an item in the Sunday...