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A regular correspondent wrote to mention that his cc is considering mandating laptops for all students. We've given that some vague thought on my campus, too, focusing mostly on netbooks. The ...

The headlines about the enrollment booms at community colleges are accurate, as far as they go. But I realized yesterday that they leave out part of the story. Locally, our credit-bearing ...

My college, like so many others, has tried to deal with the Great Recession by having a series of public meetings about what's most important to us. The idea has been to give stakeholders from ...

Out-of-state students! According to this article, several state university systems are now considering making deliberate moves to increase the proportion of out-of-state students, specifically to ...

Should a college doing layoffs simultaneously fund sabbaticals? First, some context. My college doesn't have a publication requirement for faculty. Most faculty here don't publish with any ...

This in IHE contains a lot, and is well worth pondering. It has several posts' worth of material, actually, but for today, I'll just focus on this: To better promote success, it appears that not ...

The Planet Money podcast from NPR has a running feature called "Today's Economic Indicator" (or something like that). It's a number plucked from wherever that's meant to be suggestive of ...

Lesboprof has a thought-provoking post up about imposter syndrome. It's that nagging feeling that you get in an authority role that you don't really know what you're doing, and that you're this ...

Apparently, it's compare-and-contrast week on the blog. These two stories from IHE, posted on the same day, are worth reading next to each other. They're both about for-profit higher ed, though ...

A little while back I was involved in a meeting at which a relatively contentious issue was debated. One person prefaced her statement with something along the lines of “the such-and-such ...