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What does the coronavirus mean for colleges and universities? How did campuses handle this public safety emergency? I’ve been researching how the pandemic impacts higher education since COVID first appeared in Hubei province...
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In October I gave a talk (online, of course) about climate change and the future of higher education. EDUCAUSE hosted the event; accordingly, my focus was on campus information technology. I appreciated the chance to try out m...
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How do people use social media? It turns out, a lot of Americans turn to these platforms for news. The invaluable Pew Research Center just updated us on their latest findings, and the results should be very useful for anyone thi...
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How does higher education stand this month? Last week the Future Trends Forum hosted Joshua Kim and Edward Maloney, authors of the just-published The Low-Density University: 15 Scenarios for Higher Education (Johns Hopkins Unive...
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I wrote this post before and after rioters stormed the United States Capitol building. I have notes for a post about that… event, but that’s come after this one because of scheduling. Today I’d like to announce t...
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Today we conclude our reading of Kim Stanley Robinson’s Ministry for the Future. If you’re new to the book club, welcome! Here’s the introductory post. We started back in November. With this post we start discussing the f...
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Here’s a 2020 story: this Tuesday my wife became the first person in our house to get a COVID-19 vaccine. She received it so soon because of her new job as a contact tracer for the county east of ours. The vaccine was the Mo...
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What can 2020 tell us about higher education in 2021? It’s still too early to really make this call, in some ways. 2020 is too fresh, too close, and too riven by a mixture of fierce political fighting and enormous amounts ...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has hit higher education hard in many nations. In the United States many colleges and universities suffer from virus-caused financial pressures, from decreased enrollment to reductions in state funding. T...
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Today we continue with our reading of Kim Stanley Robinson’s Ministry for the Future. If you’re new to our online book club, greetings! Here’s the introductory post. Today’s we’re deep in the novel, about 2/3rds of the...