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Major inflexibility
On the continuing theme of "what we're not able to imagine, we're very unlikely to do" -- One of the...
Ask the Administrator: Final Grade Windows
A regular correspondent writes: Apropos to the time of year... how long is it reasonable to expect faculty to turn...
Imagination and wisdom and waste
In my previous post, I noted that a lot of us can imagine the end of the world more readily...
Buying BlackBoard: Corrections and Extensions
I’m obligated to post two corrections to my April 27th blog, "Buying Blackboard." The errors were clearly mine; the errors...
The Balance
What do I stand for? We talk, write and read very often about how to we cope with this post-post-industrial...
The Wireless Chain
Reading Aerotropolis got me thinking about supply chains, cold chains (how food and flowers travel market to market), and lately...
The Invisible Horse
As an economics undergraduate major and subsequently a doctoral student, I remember studying World War I, especially the economic consequences...
Lessons the School May Not Have Intended
I did not plan to write about this situation at first, because it involves high school, not college. However, I...