Filter & Sort
Creeping commentary
My expertise is in education and I have tried hard to keep my blog focused on just that topic. I...
Debates Among Mothers
When a friend first alerted me to this article in the Wall Street Journal as possible material for this column...
Associations of universities and the deep internationalization agenda: beyond the status quo?
Do our associations of universities have the adequate capabilities, including infrastructures, to support the well-spring of 'internationalization' that is emerging...
But we like silos
I probably shouldn't have been surprised by the mid-career faculty member who didn't know her way around her own campus...
Weather wimps
My part of the world, Vancouver, B.C., is full of weather wimps, and I count myself among them. We like...
Happy Thanksgiving
Depending on your point of view, I either did something rash in accepting an invitation to participate in The Ohio...
In Praise of the Americans
At the start of the Great Depression, a moonlighting professor described U.S. culture perfectly. Scott McLemee unearths a classic.
Microbenefits
“Why them and not us?” Managing the different impacts of microbenefits is a surprisingly large part of my job. I’m...