Filter & Sort
Values and Scholarship
Eleven research university provosts explain why they back open access -- in Congressional legislation and on their campuses.
Marketing as Strategy, Part Two: Start With What You Know
Research can be one of the great levelers, since different people throughout the institution have different knowledge and ideas about how the institution or school is perceived externally, based on who they interact with and how long they’ve been part of the organization.
Student Affairs Graduate Programs and Technology
Initially, I was going to title this post "Top 10 Student Affairs Graduate Programs That Get Technology." However, when I started to ponder which programs actually are leading the way when it comes to technology in Student Affairs, I couldn't think of any programs.
Scraping Campus Bookstore Data in the Hunt for Cheaper Textbooks
Textyard has open sourced the tool it build for harvesting course and textbook data from college textbooks. Textyard used this to build its textbook price comparison site, and now that the startup's founders are moving on to a new project, they're releasing the technology in the hopes that other students and programmers can build projects with it.
The Accidental Therapist
Nate Kreuter considers the role of instructors when their students come to them with decidedly nonacademic problems.
Taking Exception
American politicians love American exceptionalism -- or at least to talk about it. Scott McLemee wonders if they know the concept's odd history.
What Matthew Gavin Frank Knows
A conversation with Matthew Gavin Frank about his new memoir, Pot Farm.
A Better Approach to 'Gainful Employment'
Bipartisan federal legislation would give taxpayers and students data about college programs' labor market returns -- without imposing onerous regulations, writes Mark Schneider.