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Why do administrators want to cut some college costs and not others?
Through some remarkable administrative foresight by our (sadly) ex-interim Provost, my department is filling two tenure-track positions this year. No, this is not the academic equivalent of turning...
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Two great problems that go great together.
Via UD, I see that a new for-profit college is about to start exploiting the adjunct problem through online learning: The curriculum will be offered online, with each class broken into two parts:...
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What’s the difference between a MOOC and the University of Phoenix?
I think the answer to that question is either going to be “branding” or “not much at all.” I guess you’ll have to read all the way to the end of the post in order to figure out which one I eventually...
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“Don’t go for second best, baby.”
Yeah, I’m really going to blog about Madonna and I’m going to make it relevant too. First, however, let’s start firmly within the usual subject matter for this space. Peter Cohan writes about edX in...
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Out of grad school, money spent. See no future, pay no rent.
I blame Phil Hill for getting me to read this rant by Mark Cuban: Its far too easy to borrow money for college. Did you know that there is more outstanding debt for student loans than there is for...
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Which side are you on?
Normally, I have far better things to do than read the comments at Inside Higher Education, but you can’t blame me for looking when the article in question actually quotes me. Oddly enough, I think...
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What if the future of higher education isn’t online?
In a recent survey conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project and Elon University’s Imaging the Internet Center, 60% of people they describe as “Internet experts” agreed that: By 2020,...
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“I walk the line.”
Here’s a little-known fact about me: I used to be a Walmart blogger. That blog is still updated occasionally by my friend Jeff in Cleveland, but a few years back I came to the decision that I could do...
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“[T]he low end always wins.”
You were just dying to know what I think of that video from the Campaign for the Future of Higher Education, weren’t you? George Siemens has already called it a “flailing rage walrus response to...
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“I don’t need no beast of burden.”
I have very eclectic interests. Labor history. The history of technology. The history of food. Monty Python. Ferris Bueller. The music of the Rolling Stones. The survival of higher education in...
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