This writing assignment is courtesy of my friend, Dr. Scott Warnock of Drexel University, who has raised the readership of my 1998 short story, “Zenith,” 100x by assigning it to his students in a Literature of...
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I am not a lawyer. I don’t even play one on TV. I’m a literal-minded engineer who loves education...
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It is now widely accepted that the job of college is to get you a job. While schools are talking...
Read MoreCross-post from 11trees.com… Infographics are often quite silly. They try to boil down complex issues into simplistic graphics, with stick figures and stylized pie charts. The good ones, though, unveil some central truth...
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What percent of your software development projects come in under budget and on time? Sounds...
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It might have been a particularly devious form of procrastination, or an excellent life hack, but...
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We know that corporations are people – at least in a legal sense. Some argue in a more...
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If you’re following the alleged slow collapse of American higher education, then it’s...
Read MoreTwo great reads today: Ev William’s, as reported by Wired: “Here’s the formula if you want to build a billion-dollar internet company,” he said. “Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long...
Read MoreIn “Frayed Prospects, Despite a Degree” journalist Shaila Dewan takes the mainstream media’s sob-story around employment (and unemployment) to the front pages of the New York Times. Culprits aren’t named...
Read MoreWhat do students get for investing four to six years in higher education? The opportunity cost, the tuition dollars, the resulting debt? What is the return to taxpayers footing billions of federal and state dollars for loans,...
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