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Using our teacher voices
Amid all the hubbub about popular uprisings in North Africa (calls for social and economic sustainability) and in Wisconsin (resistance...
Admissions to higher education in Brazil
The state university in Campinas, UNICAMP, one of the leading research universities in Brazil, has announced a new experimental procedure...
Sustainabili . . . why?
David Schatsky of Green Research just released the results of an interesting survey of senior business executives with corporate sustainability...
Gen X as Transitional
Those of us who went through grad school in the '90s probably remember when “post-” was the prefix of choice...
ABC's and PhD's: Yet more on role models
Like Libby, I also was interested in Rosemarie’s Monday post about Role Models. I agree with both of these Mama...
Idea for a Network/Platform/App for Creators
This post is written for three audiences:- People willing to pull apart, critique and improve upon the idea.- People who...
Our Wise Politicians
Do we need politicians with a serious academic background to increase the general quality of the public debates? Or, is...
Krugman's Challenge
Regular readers know that I'm consistently disappointed in the New York Times' coverage of higher ed, since it mostly boils...