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Weird and Dangerous Days

It’s been one of those weeks. Our semester is nearly done, and at first I blamed the odd events on...

Ask the Administrator: Building a Community College

A Tennessee correspondent writes: Does building a new community college make economic sense for a cash-strapped community? Where can one...

Scathing Online Schoolmarm

A professor at the University of Colorado sends SOS the following intriguing letter a freshman there wrote to the campus...

Modest proposal #8 - Steal some good songs

I once heard Waylon Jennings -- former guitar player for The Crickets -- describe someone (not, to my knowledge, a...

Not Pretty in Pittsburgh

An alert reader sent me links to these articles from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review about a power struggle among the Westmoreland...

Publishing: Now for the Masses 2

Print on Demand (POD) books have been around for several years, but their production quality wasn’t good, since they’re not...

Science Fairs and School Boards

My local school board continues to impress me. Last night the gym at TB's school was partitioned right down the...

Modest proposal #7 - Conscientious computing

One of the biggest causes of increased electrical usage -- and so, increased greenhouse gas emissions -- on campus is...