Discusses the 2008 presidential candidates' plans for higher education and other issues currently impacting higher education.

Picasa Web Albums goes CC, written 4 days ago, Very cool news this morning: the latest version of Picasa Web Albums now, like Flickr, supports Creative Commons licenses.

Follow Up: Is P-16 a Field of Action and Study?, written 3 days ago, Last blog opened up the definition and conceptual boundaries of this emerging area of P-16. For now, I am avoiding the discussion of P-20 that includes preschool through graduate school. In order to be a "field" P-16 must...

Renting your textbooks?, written 1 day ago, I recently came across a website that lets you rent your textbooks for a semester (or quarter or summer). It's called Chegg and you actually rent the book and send it back after you're done. They boast that you can save up to 80% and help the environment. ...

Continuing Education Trends provides information on adult education and trends in higher learning. New products and services and national and regional education information.

A professor of English describes university life. Aim: To change things.

You're Gonna Go Far! (All the Way to the Bar!), written 2 days ago, On Tuesday we button up OCIP, and it's a safe bet that we all deserve a solid night of sloppiness. The time has come to doff that suit, don that drinking cap, and set free the snide remarks and cheeky smirks we have all been bottlin...

On the Demise of the Free Twitter SMS Service, written 3 hours ago, Imagine the following conversation: "Where are you going?" "Down to the High Street. I've just received a message saying that there's a guy giving away free £20 notes. Are you coming?" "No. And you shouldn'...

The Friday Post #16: Who are Ordinary Heroes? Librarians!, written 2 days ago, Here's the Friday Post #16 for Sept 5 2008. The American Library Association has announced that Banned Books Week starts Sept 27 2008. When the talk turns to intellectual censorship, most librarians - or, those who have e...

Technology Corner for your MATYC Newsletter, written 6 hours ago, I have just written a Technology Corner on the Best of YouTube for Math for our MichMATYC newsletter. If you'd like it to publish in your state or local newsletter too, send me the submission info.

600K for a Corporate Law Professor?, written 19 hours ago, Stephen Bainbridge (UCLA) reports the rumor. It strikes me as within the realm of the possible. NYU is rumored--I emphasize rumored--to have paid 500K/year to dislodge one well-known scholar from a competitor school. (NYU Philosophy is repor...

That's right, a B. You got a problem with that?, written 1 day ago, This past week I sent off for my unofficial undergraduate and graduate transcripts, because I discovered that my copies that I got in 2000 for my last job search were long gone from my archives. I got both transcripts in the last co...

Oded Schramm, written 4 days ago, I am very saddened (and stunned) to learn that Oded Schramm, who made fundamental contributions to conformal geometry, probability theory, and mathematical physics, died in a hiking accident this Monday, aged 46.  (I knew him as a fellow editor of the Journal of th...

Immersive Virtual Environments for Collaborative Learning Coming to Stevens, written 4 days ago, The National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education has awarded $500,000 to two professors of Mechanical Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, to pursue the research in virtual ...

Weekly Media Round-up: Student Press Back for the Fall, written 2 days ago, Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;...

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QoTD: Solitude and creativity, written 3 weeks ago, …remember that solitude has always been, in all the history of mental achievement, a requisite for great work. (…) The great poems written in lonely garrets—the masterpiece paintings conceived by the artist amid the fields—the divine harmon...

I Had A Clever Title, But I Forgot It, For I Am Tired, written 5 days ago, It is...yes. It is underway. The semester, she's rolling. Good lord. I'm tired.Yeah, definitely not into the work schedule yet. Tomorrow we'll have been in class for a week (minus Monday, of course). So seriously. Four days? ...

Northern lights blog.

That Time of Year, written 4 days ago, It's that time of year again, where I am given several opportunities to reflect on what "I wish I had known" when I started graduate school 5 years ago. A couple of instances in particular would probably be helpful references.1. My TA is not respondin...