Columns

Much like new parking stickers, greetings from the dean, freshman orientation, long lines at the campus bookstore, and the reception...

By Kenneth C. Green

Like many who enjoyed Elizabeth Gilbert’s travel memoir Eat, Pray, Love, I’m excited to see the film, but wary, since...

By Aeron Haynie

In international higher education, we are judged by the company we keep. Thus, it is of great importance that universities...

By Philip G. Altbach

I was thinking, over my second cup of coffee, just how blunt, accusatory, vehement, vituperative, vicious is the verbiage used...

By G. Rendell

Last winter semester, I didn’t teach. It was by choice, but it was a choice that dates back to 2001...

By Guest blogger, Lee Skallerup, writing from Kentucky in the U

I’ve come to the end of a three-week writing retreat. My husband and I have both been working on writing...

By Liz Stockwell

Last Sunday, when it was particularly hot outside and we were mostly stuck inside, TG declared that she was going...

By Dean Dad

OK, this one is going to take a little explaining. Once upon a time when dinosaurs roamed the earth (starting...

By G. Rendell