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In March, I wrote two articles about a research paper written by Kelli Bird, Benjamin Castleman, Brett Fisher, and Benjamin Skinner titled Unfinished Business: Academic Market and Labor Market Profiles…

In a recently published blog about the 2022 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report, I noted that the report’s experts had identified six technologies and practices that will have a significant impact on…

The 2022 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report is one of those rare reports that is not solely based on the research of the writers, but instead incorporates the opinions of experts in…

Wednesday’s New York Times featured an article about venture capitalist John Doerr’s $1.1 billion gift to Stanford University for establishing a department and several institutes to study climate change and…

Monday’s Boston Globe featured an article by reporter James Pindell that analyzed why President Biden hasn’t kept his campaign promise of cancelling $10,000 of college student debt for every borrower.…

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…