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Where the Boys Are

And the men aren’t. Sometimes just a few statistics can tell a story. Here’s a pair I found fascinating. Our...
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3 Lessons from Borders for Higher Ed

The bankruptcy of Borders and the closing of 400 stores provides an opportunity to think through some lessons for for...
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A light, and a bright shiny object

The light is a bottle. A Coke bottle. A one-liter Coke bottle, to be precise. You know it's a Coke...
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Math Geek Mom: (Probably Unintended) Gifts from the Jesuits

It is suspected that the 360 degrees in a circle may have originated from the 365 days in a year...
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A Modest Proposal Inspired by Aaron Swartz

I don’t know what Aaron Swartz planned to do with the four million or so articles that he downloaded from...
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Is Google an Indictment of Higher Education's Failures?

Evidently, Larry Page of Google "once considered accepting goats as a legitimate form of payment from those seeking to buy...
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A New Prescription

The university technology transfer patient is ailing and needs radical treatment. Stat. Rick Shangraw Jr. and Augustine Cheng offer some prescriptions.
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An Open Letter to Congress

Dear Congress, As you know, I spend a disheartening amount of my time benchmarking, quantifying, and planning initiatives with measurable...