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'Hotspots' and international scientific collaboration
The OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 2011: Innovation and Growth in Knowledge Economies report was released on 20 September...
College Sports and Our Winter of Discontent
Periodically in the world of intercollegiate athletics, we cycle through a set of controversies, changes, and challenges that cause our...
5 Things I No Longer Wish to Own
Is this desire to shed ownership of things a life cycle story, a digital story, or something else? Do you...
The View from Fifth Grade
“I have a locker!”You forget what’s important when you’re ten.TW and I went to the parents’ open house at The...
On Being a Feminist Role Model in the Classroom
Lee Skallerup “Is it always like this?” This question came from one of the three male students in my 50+...
Dilemmas of Expansion: Can the Brazilian government assure the quality of new institutions?
Brazilian education has expanded very rapidly in recent years, due mostly to private institutions, that now account for 75% of...
Best Colleges Badge: We Sustain Its Existence
Initially, I had planned on doing my best to write a balanced view of the money-making-machine known as the U.S...
Shadow Boxing
Transparency has its limits. My campus recently got into a nasty little kerfuffle over something that shouldn’t have been an...