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What can Texas Hold 'Em Teach Me About Technology?
I'm playing in a poker tournament next week for an association's foundation fund. Apparently I will be playing something called...
7 Ways College Has Improved Since 91
We spend so much time worrying about what is wrong with our U.S. higher ed system that it is easy...
When Everyone Leads, Who Labors?
Anyone in the academy already knows that if a letter of recommendation praises a student as a ‘hard worker,’ the...
Telling the Future
The Boy's school recently had Back to School night, so the four of us went to see what there was...
If Henry Could See Us Now
When some colleagues thought they would enhance student reading of Walden by reconstructing Thoreau's cabin, they ran into bureaucracy that offered its own lessons, writes Michael Smith.
You Can't Dictate My Art To Me
The scrupulously truthful folks over at the creative nonfiction journal Brevity have made their first animated film, in which a...
Undergraduates in the Library, Trying Not to Drown
Project Information Literacy has a new report out based on surveys of over 8,000 undergraduate students at 25 campuses, as...
A Response to Marc Bousquet
As regular readers know, Marc Bousquet and I are not each other’s biggest fans. That said, he has really outdone...