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"Old" Habits Meet a "New" Normal

Despite a slight rise in state revenues, the 2011 budget cycle is likely to be the most difficult yet of...

No Country For Serious Students

I see the change in some of my first-year college students as the semester progresses. The once energetic, curious, wide-eyed...

'On Second Thought'

Wray Herbert's engaging On Second Thought: Outsmarting Your Mind's Hard-Wired Habits has three main messages: 1. Evolved Brains: Our minds...

The Furor Over the Claims on Chinese Mothers

When a reader sent me this link I thought at first that I had accessed the Onion. It’s not that...

IHE Post To Be Published in German

A German book publisher, having read my essays at McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and no doubt hearing of my growing fame...

Displacement

I promised last week that this week I would write a blog on privacy. The academic blog I intended to...

How Do You Know?

This week, nearly everyone on campus has been talking about Jared Lee Loughner. Aside from the obvious shock at what...

CES 2011, Motorola Atrix, and Higher Ed

Dean Dad mostly covered the CES 2011 landscape. For my part, I've been spending some enjoyable time on the web...