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Beyond modernity
I'm about two-thirds of the way through Beyond the Modern University, by Marcus Peter Ford. It's a slim volume, but...
ABCs and PhDs: Non-Traditional Academics - "NTAs", not "SAHMs"
We do not want to enter the typical stay-at-home mom vs. working mom battle – rather we believe that there...
A Minor-League Baseball Game, Through the Eyes of Three Seven Year Olds
When do we get snacks? Now? Now? Stand up? Aw, man... I can do an armpit fart. Watch! Oh, yeah...
One possible future
Vance Fried's proposal for a "$7,376 Ivy" isn't intended to be about sustainability, unless we're talking about the sustainability of...
Towards Helhaven
Was the new Pixar film "WALL-E" inspired by an American cultural theorist? Scott McLemee goes over the moon to find out.
Planning to plan to plan
Greenback U. is, in the terminology of those who think and write analytically about such things, a "multiversity." It's a...
Better-Than-Ivy Education: $7,376 a Year
Many American students and parents thirst for colleges focused on “value.” Vance Fried offers a new model.
Tiers
I had a conversation this week with a colleague at whose college, as at so many others, the level of...