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What Global Rankings Ignore
Countries value universities that promote economic growth, but those who conduct international ratings are oblivious, writes Indira Samarasekera.
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The Girl at 7
The Girl had her seventh birthday yesterday. TW’s parents made the journey for the occasion, and we did the whole...
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Nothing Personal: How Database Licenses Make Pirates of Us All
The other day, as I was tracking down the text of a classic article in JSTOR to refer to in...
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Microsoft's Mobile EDU Opportunity
Windows 7 Phone. Anyone out there have one of these bad boys in their pocket? The latest numbers I can...
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Skype Interviews Should Stay
Colleges that tried the approach to save money on initial screening shouldn't go back to the meat market of conferences, writes Lynn Lubamersky.
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Targeting, or Serving, Needy Students?
Policy makers often talk about community colleges "serving" low-income students. For-profit colleges do that, too, writes Arthur Keiser.
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Ask the Administrator: Discretion and Discrimination
A longtime reader writes: I've noticed that in your posts you often (in passing) mention lawsuit risks, it seems usually...
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5 Reasons Why Google's 20% Time Fails Higher Ed
Gmail, Google News, Google Talk, AdSense - all the fruits of Google's policy of reserving 20% of the developer's time...