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Re-sorting Responsibilities
The various players in higher ed policy -- governments, accreditors, institutions and families -- should take on roles that suit them and stop overreaching, A. Lee Fritschler and Arthur Hauptman argue.
Au Revoir, Bitch
For bloggers of a certain vintage -- those of us who marched into the academic blogosphere around 2004-5 -- the...
Portrait of the Scholar as Blogger
I return to one of my favorite subjects, blogging in the academia, but this time with a focus not on...
Math Geek Mom: Extended Family (Here and There)
Anyone who has taken geometry is probably familiar with the concept of “similarity”, in which two shapes share the same...
An EDUCAUSE missionary: spreading the word about student affairs and technology
It is now day 3 at EDUCAUSE 2010. I've been to countless meetings, sat in on a few sessions, and...
Glad Emanuel's gone
Anyone who voted for Obama in 2008, has been disappointed by the lack of moxie that his administration has shown...
The University vs. Liberal Education
Dan Edelstein wonders if elite colleges, by making the undergraduate experience so enticing and expensive, are unintentionally diverting students from the humanities.
EDUCAUSE 2010 Day 2: Hamel, Gates, Lecture Capture, and Tough Publishers
How was your day two (Wednesday) of EDUCAUSE 2010? Big takeaways? Surprises? Revelations? (okay…maybe that is asking too much). Here...