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Road Too Little Traveled
Most colleges' cost cutting decisions so far have avoided rigorous reviews of academic programs. It's time for that to change, writes Tim Mann, who offers some pointers.
They Don't Read!
Over the years I’ve often taught Edward Bellamy’s classic 19th century utopian novel Looking Backward. It’s a blistering critique of...
Ask the Administrator: The Etiquette of Postmortems
A regular correspondent whose chief academic officer abruptly stepped down writes: When we start looking for a new academic dean...
Math Geek Mom: More on Maternity Leaves
Several weeks ago, I asked my readers to share their maternity leave stories with me, as I work to propose...
Audiobooks, E-readers and Accessibility
Three cheers for the educators at Syracuse and UW Madison for refusing to purchase new Kindle's until the speech-to-text feature...
Time and space
During the academic year at Greenback, campus buildings alternate between "occupied" and "unoccupied" status. Our energy management system is programmed...
Eating Sustainably in College
It’s good to collect Ph.D.s—people who have them, not the degrees themselves—to make yourself look smarter at cocktail parties. “Oh...
A New Manhattan Project
Debates over affirmative action divert attention from the need for a massive research project to understand -- and close -- the racial achievement gap, write Thomas J. Espenshade and Alexandria Walton Radford.