Small World

The often-overlooked work of higher education’s essential translators—the VPs.

By Rachel Toor

Another academic year starts and neither Gordon nor Rachel will be on campus.

By Rachel Toor and E. Gordon Gee

Re-examining my irritation with Girls and women.

By Rachel Toor

Rachel and Gordon suffer a bout of the warm fuzzies in the heat of the summer and talk about the greatness that is U.S. higher education.

By Rachel Toor and E. Gordon Gee

“Foreignness” isn’t what makes study abroad meaningful. Attention is. Not what you do or see, but what affects and changes you.

By Rachel Toor

Rachel and Gordon make fun of academic traditions.

By Rachel Toor and E. Gordon Gee

What can we learn about the last two decades in higher education from the career of Miranda Priestley?

By Rachel Toor

Rachel asks Gordon to mansplain the nuttiness of big-time college sports.

By Rachel Toor and E. Gordon Gee