Is it real? Can we win? Is it worth doing?

Originally posted 16 June 2017 I saw the best minds of my institution distracted by madness, meeting endlessly in vain, poring themselves over balance sheets

In Comey Firing Trump Gets Notification Wrong Again

Any number of news outlets communicated a sense of outrage over the fact that James Comey apparently learned he’d been fired by looking up at

Hack Your Organizational Problems

“Hackathons” are cool. But who knows what they really are and how they work?  This makes them ideal things for clueless managers to do poorly.

Ten Reflections from the Fall Semester

Notes from this semester. Each semester I jot down observations about organizational practices, usually inspired by events at my place of employment.  Every now and

American Talent Initiative aims to recruit 50,000 highly qualified students from modest backgrounds

Well, this is good news. Unless, perhaps, you are already an institution that does this – sure the pool is a deep one, but what’s

The "Core" COULD actually be a core

In the Chronicle of Higher Education Nicholas Lemann argues for an alternative approach to a core curriculum that is explicitly focused on intellectual skills and