Opinion

I think I may have just outed my dad. You see, my father is a luddite. He is extremely proud...

Emile Durkheim, the great French sociologist, tells us that there are four kinds of suicide. None of the four really...

The debate over the merits of faculty tenure at universities is perennial, passionate, and polarized. Supporters hold that tenure is...

Over the past year, my college has advertised for both tenure-track faculty positions and administrative positions. (More of the former...

"Why are you beating this horse to death? I mean how many blog posts about Blackboard getting bought can you...

It may be exam week for my students — and my daughter — but it’s grading week for me. This...

What do Amazon, Google, Facebook, I.S.P.s and most Internet corporations have in common? They are all private, for-profit corporations. What...

Acquiring Blackboard would make strategic sense for Google, Microsoft or Cisco. Price matters, and Blackboard is expensive at a market...