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What Higher Education Can Learn From a Public Charity Hospital

March 29, 2023

Add Ricardo Nuila to the list of physicians who write brilliantly about medical practice, a list that includes Atul Gawande, Jerome Groopman, Perri Klass, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Sherwin Nuland and Abraham Verghese.

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Where Will Generative AI Lead?

March 29, 2023

Looking ahead to the not-too-distant future, we are likely to see more about biocomputers. Using brain and stem cells, researchers are hoping to vastly accelerate and expand performance.

Learning Innovation

Print Encyclopedias, Universities and ‘All the Knowledge in the World’

March 28, 2023

Britannica, Wikipedia and us.

Higher Ed Gamma

Wonders of the Invisible World

March 28, 2023

Uncovering the hidden forces that reshape our lives.

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The Fight to Save the Town

March 28, 2023

A review of the new book by Michelle Wilde Anderson.

Just Explain It to Me!

KJB-Tel Records’ Higher Ed Breakup Album

March 28, 2023

The soundtrack for the ups and downs of an academic career in this strange time.

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Notes From a Community College Humanities Conference

March 27, 2023

Refreshing. It was refreshing.

Learning Innovation

Climate Change, the University and ‘The Great Displacement’

March 26, 2023

A fantastic companion book to Bryan Alexander’s newly published Universities on Fire.

Higher Ed Gamma

Memorializing a Fraught Past

March 26, 2023

How to make statues and monuments more meaningful when past figures and events’ legacies are complicated or ambiguous.

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Friday Fragments: Parenting Edition

March 24, 2023

Good news for student parents; good news for purveyors of “dad jokes”; good news from The Boy.

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