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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...
Mothering at Mid-Career: Who Speaks for Anon?
Rosemarie Emanuel’s piece last week on bifurcating really got me thinking. My first thought was that I was glad that...
4 Reasons We Should Care About Netflix's Dumb Moves
The News: Netflix is breaking into two divisions, Netflix for stream and Qwikster for DVDs. The Problem: An integrated service...
HathiTrust Conundrum
Last week I gave an invited talk on copyright at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy. Before I left Ithaca...
Grounding
A friend and fellow academic from Monash University, Sunway Campus in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia recently came for a 4-day scoping...
Thoughts on 'Pinched'
Pinched, by Don Peck, makes me jealous as a writer. (Michael Lewis and Adam Gopnik have that effect, too.) It’s...