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Deferred Maintenance: It’s No Joke

What happen when one of your buildings goes down at the end of the semester? The issue of deferred maintenance when it directly impacts teaching and learning.

Split Personality

My older daughter has wanted to see Jekyll and Hyde, the musical, on Broadway from the time that the announcement was made that the show as coming back to Broadway.

When the Dog Actually Catches a Car

Several weeks ago, after a successful class show, I was invited to try out for the national touring wing of a wonderful improv company.

A Better Factory Model

The factory production model can work as a means for evaluating community college efficiency, write Clive Belfield and Davis Jenkins.

'Risk' and Reward

Academics who make a career shift to the for-profit sector sometimes face the added challenge of being "tarred" by the move, writes Trenda Boyum-Breen. She and others discuss why it's worth it.

Order and Liberty: The DPLA Launches

I wasn’t entirely sure what the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) would look like when the long-awaited launch date of April 18 approached. The suspense is finally over: it looks great.

Friday Fragments

It’s school break week for K-12, so we’re off to see Plymouth Rock. I’m told there isn’t much of it to see at this point, but history is history.

A Clean Slate

It was that time of the year again, one of my favorites: spring when I get to. I love raking, organizing, and generally cleaning up our relatively large lot, and this year was extra-special because we had a lot of large, dead branches littering the yard. Or, as my kids like to call them, Angry Bird launchers.