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Before traveling to Baltimore for my 50th high school reunion, I wrote about the years that my classmates and I spent at McDonogh School, the changes in the school since…

Later this week, I will be in Maryland, attending my 50th high school reunion. My alma mater, McDonogh School organizes and hosts reunions every five years for each graduating class…

Many of us know the children’s story about the hen who is hit in the head by a falling acorn and runs around yelling, “the sky is falling.” She convinces…

At a recent memorial service for my former headmaster at McDonogh School, the last speaker relayed a story that Bob Lamborn shared in an email to his granddaughter. When he…

I have written about NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in the past. For more than two decades, NASA and its European and Canadian partners planned to replace the Hubble Telescope,…

It hardly seems possible that it’s been less than two weeks since the men’s basketball Final Four in New Orleans, the last weekend of the championship tournament known as March…

In an earlier post this week, I wrote about transforming a school of education to meet America’s K-20 and lifetime education needs. I thought I would add a few more…

I have written a few articles about the state of Texas’ ambitious 60x30TX strategic plan for providing a postsecondary education to at least 60 percent of its residents by the…

I have attended all the ASU+GSV Summits since the first in 2010. The earliest conferences were held on the Arizona State University (ASU) Skysong campus. Within three years, the number…

In an opinion piece in this week’s Inside Higher Education, Professor Robert Kelchen writes that it’s almost impossible to tell how graduates of online programs fare compared to graduates of…

I am never surprised about the naivete of many in higher education about the changing perspectives regarding degrees and microcredentials. Earlier this week, I read an article in The evolllution…

In June of 2021, I published an article about Texas’ ambitious 60x30TX strategic plan. There are four major goals for the plan that has been in existence since 2015. By…

In a blog article that I titled The Signs Are All Around Us, I included a few thoughts about the NC Promise program. That write-up is republished below as a…

In September 2021, Amazon announced that it would pay full college tuition for its 750,000 front-line employees. The benefit not only included tuition but also the cost of books and…

In a recently published article, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute president Michael Petrilli writes that the “sky is falling” arguments lamenting the decline in college enrollments are “entirely too pessimistic.”…