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Governance Matters
Who should govern universities? Should the best scholars sacrifice their career as researchers and govern academic institutions or should professional...
"Old" Habits Meet a "New" Normal
Despite a slight rise in state revenues, the 2011 budget cycle is likely to be the most difficult yet of...
No Country For Serious Students
I see the change in some of my first-year college students as the semester progresses. The once energetic, curious, wide-eyed...
'On Second Thought'
Wray Herbert's engaging On Second Thought: Outsmarting Your Mind's Hard-Wired Habits has three main messages: 1. Evolved Brains: Our minds...
The Furor Over the Claims on Chinese Mothers
When a reader sent me this link I thought at first that I had accessed the Onion. It’s not that...
IHE Post To Be Published in German
A German book publisher, having read my essays at McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and no doubt hearing of my growing fame...
Displacement
I promised last week that this week I would write a blog on privacy. The academic blog I intended to...
How Do You Know?
This week, nearly everyone on campus has been talking about Jared Lee Loughner. Aside from the obvious shock at what...