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Why Intelligent Minds Like Elon Musk and Steve Jobs Embrace the 'No Silo Rule'
How did Apple leapfrog Sony to create the iPod, which essentially killed the Walkman? It all came down to the no silo rule....
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Classrooms Without Walls, and Hopefully Covid
First graders sit crisscross applesauce on tree stumps, hands sky-high to ask a question. Third graders peer closely at the plants...
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Colleges Slash Budgets in the Pandemic, With ‘Nothing Off-Limits’
Liberal arts departments, graduate student aid and even tenured teaching positions are targets as the coronavirus causes shortfalls....
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To Learn the Truth, Read My Wikipedia Entry on Sichuan Peppers
Amid a pandemic and QAnon conspiracies, this librarian is focused on facts. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/23/opinion/sunday/wikipedia-s...
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The Future of College Looks Like the Future of Retail
Similar to e-commerce firms, online-degree programs are beginning to incorporate elements of an older-school, brick-and-mortar model....
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America Will Sacrifice Anything for the College Experience
The pandemic has revealed that higher education was never about education. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/10/college...
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After the Pandemic, a Revolution in Education and Work Awaits
Providing more Americans with portable health care, portable pensions and opportunities for lifelong learning is what politics needs to be a
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How chief health officers could help campuses navigate COVID
We held the latest in our series of virtual Brainstorm Health panel discussions on Thursday with a conversation about why having a chief...
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On campus with the coronavirus: An oral history of the strangest semester ever
It was the second Wednesday of the first month back on campus, just weeks into the weirdest semester on record, when one dorm’s residents...
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This School Was Built for Idealists. It Could Use Some Rich Alumni.
For the past century, the New School produced iconoclastic thinkers. Now it is finding that idealism is very expensive....
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The Edge: Let’s Give a Kiss Goodbye to These 10 Pandemic-Endangered Practices
Higher ed is changing. Goldie Blumenstyk, a senior writer and Chronicle veteran, connects you with the people, trends, and ideas that are...
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Colleges Are Cutting Varsity Sports. That Could Be a Good Thing.
Few of the cut programs will perish, instead transitioning to club teams that allow athletes to continue playing more on their terms,...
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Colleges Are Fueling the Pandemic in a Classic Market Failure
Financial pressures explain why many campuses have brought students back. But there is a textbook solution, two economists say:...
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No Home, No Wi-Fi: Pandemic Adds to Strain on Poor College Students
Some low-income students have dropped out, and there are growing concerns about hunger and homelessness. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/...
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Against Schadenfreude
Higher education confronts a collapse that's more than whether we can continue to pay employees, more than whether our students and...
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Why some colleges are winning against Covid-19, and others are losing
College campuses are coronavirus breeding grounds. They don’t have to be. By Katherine Harmon Courage https://www.vox.com/21445908/covid-...
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Reinventing Higher Education for Affordability
William G. Durden explains how colleges might radically rethink one major aspect of contemporary undergraduate education: student life...
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Reclaiming Intellectual Community
Technology encouraged social distancing on campuses long before the pandemic exacerbated it, writes Adam J. Davis, and the challenge now...
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"It Really Was Abandonment: Virus Crisis Grips British Universities"
LONDON — Inside a dormitory now known by students as H.M.P., for Her Majesty’s Prison, trash piled up in shared kitchens. Students washed...
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‘Zoom University’: is college worth the cost without the in-person experience?
Covid-19 has led many to question costs and highlights the fact that higher education institutions are businesses...
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