Opinion

Magazines aren't something that I generally purchase. However, when I'm at 30,000 feet jet-setting off to my next consulting engagement, or heading home to Boston, magazines are one of my favorite ways to pass the time. On a whim, I recently picked up the April edition of the outrageously priced Harvard Business Review. While reading an article about data and good decisions, one of the headlines made me immediately dog-ear a page and pop open my laptop. Part of the focus of the article was that businesses need to develop "more informed skeptics." My brain immediately leapt over to my "radical student affairs" post and connected skepticism to being a more radical practitioner. Questioning is learning, innovating, and being an agent for change.

In years past, I used to worry about what to "do" with Ben during his school breaks. This year, he had to remind me not to wake him up on Friday morning, because the start date of his spring break kept slipping my mind.

The next generation of leaders of public comprehensive universities may well have to refashion the institutions, Emily Miller and Richard Skinner write.

Some scholars are alarmed by planned changes at the New York Public Library. But Anthony Marx writes that the shifts will promote research and protect the collections.

The United States is truly moving into the era of the commercialization of international higher education. International students, particularly, are being seen as “cash cows” that can bring in needed revenues at a time of austerity.

How does the fear that you and your institution will get sued for copyright infringement alter the way in which you provide educational materials for your students?

The Girl: “If you dug a tunnel to China, would the hole in the earth make a whistling sound as the earth turned?”