Useful forum in Inside Higher Ed today on faculty “resistance” to teaching online. Simply phrasing it that way drives me kind of bonkers. Why don’t
A Project Begins
A colleague today said how amazing the young people in her program are, how they almost don’t understand what some of the antinomies that vexed
When Modes of Information Diffusion Collide
Anyone familiar with Twitter probably knows about “live tweeting” during television broadcasts. In my own Twitter feed are several “followees” on whom I can depend
The Problem with Departmental Revenue/Cost (non)Analysis
Originally published June 2017. All across the country struggling colleges (and universities) are hiring one of several academic consulting firms to help them get a
Bad Methods Yield Non-Actionable Answers
Originally published June 2017 Having drunk the KoolAid of rubrics and assessment, many the untrained academic administrator epitomizes that old saw about a knowing just
Managing the Wrong Problem
Originally published June 2017 We have a revenue problem, not a cost problem. Imagine an educational institution that finds itself running a budget deficit –
