Opinion

Initially, I was going to title this post "Top 10 Student Affairs Graduate Programs That Get Technology." However, when I started to ponder which programs actually are leading the way when it comes to technology in Student Affairs, I couldn't think of any programs.

Textyard has open sourced the tool it build for harvesting course and textbook data from college textbooks. Textyard used this to build its textbook price comparison site, and now that the startup's founders are moving on to a new project, they're releasing the technology in the hopes that other students and programmers can build projects with it.

Nate Kreuter considers the role of instructors when their students come to them with decidedly nonacademic problems.

A conversation with Matthew Gavin Frank about his new memoir, Pot Farm.

Bipartisan federal legislation would give taxpayers and students data about college programs' labor market returns -- without imposing onerous regulations, writes Mark Schneider.

As regular readers know, I enjoy my technology. Though largely useless with analog technology -- like hanging curtain rods -- I have great fun trying to get black boxes that beep to do stuff that they weren’t entirely meant to do, or to do it for a lot less money than its producers had hoped. Technology allows me to be both forward-thinking and cheap, which is a lovely combination.

I loved my "Clapping for Credit" class. We need to take them more seriously.