HEY I HAVE CAME UP WITH A MAJOR PROBLEM AND I NEDD YOUR HELP PLEZ….MY MOTHER WAS DIGNOSED WITH CANCER AND IM DA ONLY CHILD AT HOME AND I HAVE BEE MISSIN ALL MY SCHOOL AND I WAS WONDER WOULD YU BE KINDA ENUFF TEW HELP ME REPLACE ALL MY MISSIN GRADES AND ASSIGMETS PLEZ!!! […] … learn more→

If we don’t agree on everything then we won’t work together on anything. That seems to be the prevailing point of view in Washington today. As the president and chief executive of the United Negro College Fund, the nation’s largest higher-education organization serving students of color, I cannot afford to adopt that philosophy. When UNCF […] … learn more→

This is not so much in response to Mary Flanagan’s essay, “The Classroom as Arcade,” recently published by Inside Higher Ed, which features a vivid observation of a student in class who “check[ed] out from a class he likes” to play a role-playing game on an electronic device while others “openly engaged with their Facebook […] … learn more→

I was incredibly honoured to be able to attend the Nobel Prize Lecture just before Christmas. I went to see the three new Nobel Laureates in Medicine and Physiology present their work… “Present their work” Sorry, that’s academic speak that makes them sound like they were keynotes at a conference or something. They were not. […] … learn more→

For many high-school seniors, it’s decision time: Where will they go to college? It’s a stressful period, especially for students attending top-tier high schools, where competition over name-recognition colleges and prestige runs rampant. Much preparation and conscious plotting has led to this moment: years of hard work, jampacked extracurricular calendars, SAT prep, and more. Students […] … learn more→

What lives in Brazil and looks like a football? Brazil’s official World Cup mascot. The three-banded armadillo is a mammal native to Brazil’s dry tropical forests, and rolls into a ball when threatened. But nearly half of the armadillos\’ habitat has been cleared. The armadillo was named as Brazil’s World Cup mascot in an attempt […] … learn more→

\”We are faced with an unsustainable reality,\” states the Modern Language Association’s long-awaited report on doctoral study in literature and languages. That reality includes a median time-to-degree of nine years and a weak academic job market that places a deplorably low percentage of Ph.D.’s in tenure-track professorships, often after years of postdoctoral purgatory. There are […] … learn more→

And so at last I decide to discuss, at least a little, the immense fraud of college athletics programs, specifically the “big game” sports like football and basketball (I’m going to call it all “sportsball” after this). Before starting in, I must preface some. I’ve nothing against athletics, and I even accept that, to some […] … learn more→

An article with the attention-grabbing headline of “Home Depot, The Place to Go for Toilet Paper?” in Friday’s issue of The Wall Street Journal made some interesting points about how to drive consumer traffic. Yes, I do not like to use that term either or to apply it to higher education, but that seems to […] … learn more→

In days of yore, administrators of higher education had integrity, and felt responsibility towards the young people in their charge. Because administrators were human beings, and cared for the young, there were co-ed dorms (with strict rules about late night visitors), morality codes, adult supervision in the dorms…concepts that are alien today. All these rules […] … learn more→