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Billion-Dollar Boondoggle?
Universities shouldn't be competing to host the next presidential libraries, but should be working to reform the concept of presidential libraries, writes Ben Hufbauer.
Weirdly Brilliant
I have to give the state of Florida credit. There’s something weirdly brilliant in this. The state of Florida is...
3 Reasons to Decree Mobile Learning by 2015
It's time for a big ambitious goal.
Summer Vacation, Part II
A few weeks in, and still no rest for the wicked.
NYT Magazine Blows One
The NYT Magazine published an essay about something that happened, but that doesn't make it the truth.
Where's the Evidence?
There are many ways to measure learning that takes place outside of traditional classrooms. John F. Ebersole wants to know why MOOCs aren't using the available techniques.
Entrepreneurial and Innovative
Amid so much change in higher education, Terri E. Givens writes that just as faculty critique questionable ideas, they also need to do more to share how they are using new strategies and experimenting to improve teaching and research.
Honors as Bait?
Should community colleges use Honors programs to prevent becoming stigmatized as providers to the poor? Paul Fain had a wonderful...