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Messages from a washing machine

I started doing laundry when I was in my teens. When I began attending community college in the mid-90's I...

Chushingura and Catastrophe

In an excerpt from his new book on MIT, Samuel Jay Keyser talks about why commissions and task forces may be ignored, but certain events can lead to real change at a university.

Journal 2

That odd feeling when time comes unstuck in us. To read Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night (1934) and find...

Motherhood After Tenure: The Legacy of the Freedom Riders

Last week I attended the 50th Reunion of the Freedom Riders, in Jackson, Mississippi, an event which honored the courageous...

The Interregnum

Don’t tell anyone... The brief gap between graduation and the start of summer classes is blissfully quiet. I can actually...

The Essential Mobile Teaching (and Learning) Platform?

Thought experiment. You are teaching a course that has a significant online (distance) component. Your mobile platform will be used...

Guiding renters

So here it is, the first of June (already!). I often lose track of time in late May, because life...

Internationalization is About Cultural Change

Internationalization is about changing culture. The best higher ed internationalization strategy in the world is doomed to fail if it...