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The Freedom to Fail

One of the challenges of the college classroom is showing students that they can learn from failure, writes Nate Kreuter.

Why Occupy Colleges?

Students have good reason to express anger and to cry out for help, writes John Pelletier.

What Defines a Dilettante?

It's that time of year. I've read through more resumes and essays than I care to remember. I have the...

The EDU Second Life False Negative

Second Life has been somewhat of a higher ed bust. Yeah, I know that some of you have been using...

#EDU11: You Give PR a Bad Name

To all the PR firms who are doing a great job of building relationships and sending out relevant pitches, I...

Math Geek Mom: Academic Ancestor

Last week, I saw a news clip about a Nobel Prize winning economist, Joseph Stiglitz, speaking on behalf of the...

Hand and head

As I said earlier, I recently finished reading James H. Kunstler's World Made By Hand. Without taking its depiction of...

Motherhood After Tenure: One Birthday, Two Lives

Have you ever wondered what your life would be like if you'd made different choices: if you had married your...