Opinion

Should a college doing layoffs simultaneously fund sabbaticals? First, some context. My college doesn't have a publication requirement for faculty...

By Dean Dad

A long time ago, in a college that now seems to be a galaxy far, far away, I started my...

By Rosemarie Emanuele

The Chronicle's article "Open Courses: Free, but Oh, So Costly" provides one model for open courseware. This M.I.T. model costs...

By Joshua Kim

Any real debate is over. Take a look at the following, and then let's talk about whose words these are...

By G. Rendell

In the last couple of months, my husband and I were both “furloughed”: we were each informed by our respective...

By Aeron Haynie

Among all the issues in higher education today, retention once again captures our attention. Most influential is the publication of...

By John R. Thelin

Here’s the set-up; you have until Friday at 4:00 to answer: You’re teaching an introductory survey for non-majors to a...

By Oronte

This in IHE contains a lot, and is well worth pondering. It has several posts' worth of material, actually, but...

By Dean Dad