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Can You Explain IT to Your Mom?
Here’s an interesting challenge for many of us who work in and around technology: can you explain your job –...
Academic Identity Crises: Who is a Professor? What is an Administrator?
The two most misused nouns in the American academy are “Professor” and “administration.” In a recent New York Times piece...
Opposition to Affirmative Action
Twice in the last year, I’ve heard some statements on campus against affirmative action that have helped me understand some...
Book Futures: A Crowdsourced Thought Experiment
Last week, I was involved in a virtual summit on e-books to which I was probably invited to serve as...
5 Concise Reasons to Read Robert Reich's 'Afterschock'
I love short books. Can you recommend any good, but concise, nonfiction? Great reads under 200 pages? Here are my...
Civil Engineering yes; Tea no
Though it is difficult to demonstrate, even in the era of outcomes assessment, we all strive to provide an education...
Ads and Gender
In a recent New York Times Magazine article, Peggy Orenstein discusses advertisers’ discovery of “the sales potential in female pride.”She...
Chinese Contradictions
Recent statistics concerning flows of students from China and Chinese views about migration raise some interesting questions concerning the present...