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6 Questions I'd Ask Google's Education Boss
Imagine that you had the opportunity to spend 30 minutes with the person who runs Google's higher education business. What would you ask?
Is Your Filing Cabinet Actually a Trash Can?
Last week, as I prepared my office for an upcoming move to another home, I had a realization: when was the last time I actually took something out of my filing cabinet? The filing cabinet sits in my closet in my home office. It include four drawers: two full of articles, one full of research notes and photocopies, and the other full of personal items, like bills and so on. I bought it during my first year of graduate school, when I realized I would be accumulating a lot of paper. This was before sheet feed scanners were popular (or affordable) or tablets or iPhones had hit the market, so reading on the computer was not something a lot of students were doing: it certainly wasn't where I was then. I used the photocopy machine. A lot.
Dreaded greeting card holidays
My daughter was surprised to hear that university professors don’t usually give each other valentines. In her world there’s a...
Social sustainability
Dave Newport has a really good (if really long) blog post here. His underlying question, to over-simplify, is how we can make the campus sustainability more about people and less about the environment.
First Day, Open Office
All of my professional career I've had a room of my own. The ability to close the door. Floor to ceiling walls. A window. A desk. A round table and chairs.
An Open Letter to the U.S. Census Bureau
In a study of childcare arrangements done by the census, childcare provided by mothers is counted as parenting, but childcare provided by fathers is counted as babysitting. And the report isn’t subtle about it.
Relentlessly Reinventing Student Affairs
Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) was the only higher education institution to be included in Fast Company's 2012 list of "The World's 50 Most Innovative Companies." Whether or not that is a "good thing" or a "bad thing" is a matter of debate. SNHU's inclusion does showcase the visionary leadership of their president, especially when it comes to their goal of becoming "the country’s biggest online not-for-profit education system."