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I worked as a management consultant for Price Waterhouse & Co. in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. As a recently minted MBA who was also a CPA, much of…

Friends of mine from Penn relocated to Austin shortly after I did. I live in South Austin, and they live on the north side. We enjoy sharing restaurant recommendations as…

The history of federal and state involvement in subsidizing the cost of higher education has filled books. From the federal perspective, Congress opted to support the students’ cost of college…

A recently published research report from Northeastern University’s Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy in partnership with 1EdTech attracted my attention. Report co-authors Sean Gallagher, Mark Leuba,…

Lt. Gen. (ret.) Richard (Dick) G. Trefry died on February 25, 2023, at the age of 98. He was raised in Marblehead, Massachusetts and graduated from Marblehead High School in…

This week’s SXSWEdu conference in Austin was notable for the relevant panels highlighting traditional versus alternative education. In fact, on the last day of the conference I overheard one traditional…

In my recent post about AI Platforms, I mentioned that I learned about the term prompt engineering which refers to the structured queries designed to maximize the answers from an…

I attended a session this week at SXSWEdu titled “Automation, Imagination, & the New Way to Work.” Paula Intravaia and Holly Morey were the instructors. Paula is a course designer…

As more commentary surfaced about the recent Department of Education Dear Colleague letter about Third-Party Servicers, it was not surprising to read that the Department delayed the effective date of…

I wasn’t surprised when I read about the University of California System implementing a regulation that requires a minimum time of physical residency in order to earn a degree. It…

I continue to use ChatGPT in different ways. I’ve read several posts where people ask it to write in the style of a specific writer. As a fan of the…

Access and affordability are two of the biggest issues in higher education. Other than in areas with no internet coverage, it can be argued that online courses and programs have…

Before writing this article, I entered the search term “generative AI” into Google, my search engine of choice. Quickly, links to 77,200,000 articles were listed. The available access to OpenAI’s…

Last week, I had one of those rare father-daughter moments when I took my 22-year-old daughters out to dinner. Our dinner discussions ranged from work to sports to concerts and…

There are many books and research papers available with concepts and details for building online college courses. Rather than extracting a summary of best practices from any of those books,…