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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. https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/why-intelligent-minds-like-elon-musk-steve-jobs-embrace-no-silo-rule.html

By Amelia Nierenberg

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 growing in class gardens, or spread themselves out in a sunflower-filled space to read. When the sun beats down, students take shelter under shades made from boat sails. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/us/outdoor-classroom-design.html

By Shawn Hubler

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. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/26/us/colleges-coronavirus-budget-cuts.html?referringSource=articleShare

By Mary Mann

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-sichuan-pepper-misinformation.html

By JEFFREY SELINGO

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. https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/04/college-online-degree-blended-learning/557642/

By Ian Bogost

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-was-never-about-education/616777/

By Thomas L. Friedman

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

By Sy Mukherjee

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 health officer (CHO) is so important to ensuring public health safety on college campuses. Link

By Paulina Firozi, Hannah Knowles, Reis Thebault

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 received an email that might have marked the beginning of the end. By Paulina Firozi, Hannah Knowles, Reis Thebault https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/10/11/uva-coronavirus-2020/?arc404=true

By Ginia Bellafante

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. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/16/nyregion/new-school-nyc-endowment-layoffs.html?referringSource=articleShare

By Goldie Blumenstyk

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 reshaping it. https://www.chronicle.com/newsletter/the-edge/2020-09-16

By Tom Farrey

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, without the strain of the N.C.A.A. rule book. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/sports/college-sports-cuts.html?referringSource=articleShare

By Sarah Cohodes and Susan Dynarski

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: government intervention. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/08/business/colleges-pandemic-market-failure.html?referringSource=articleShare

By Dan Levin

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/2020/10/12/us/covid-poor-college-students.html?referringSource=articleShare

By Susan Henking

Against Schadenfreude

Higher education confronts a collapse that's more than whether we can continue to pay employees, more than whether our students and institutions are healthy and safe, Susan Henking argues. By Susan Henking https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2020/09/14/higher-ed-faces-collapse-thats-not-only-medical-and-financial-also-moral-and

By Katherine Harmon Courage

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-19-prevention-university-campus-dorms-testing

By William G. Durden

Reinventing Higher Education for Affordability

William G. Durden explains how colleges might radically rethink one major aspect of contemporary undergraduate education: student life and nonacademic ancillary services. https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2020/10/06/benefits-academics-only-college-opinion

By Adam J. Davis

Reclaiming Intellectual Community

Technology encouraged social distancing on campuses long before the pandemic exacerbated it, writes Adam J. Davis, and the challenge now is how to rebuild connections. https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2020/10/08/pandemic-and-technology-have-caused-loss-intellectual-community-opinion

By Benjamin Mueller

"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 their clothes in bathroom sinks. Security guards stalked the gates, keeping anyone from leaving or entering. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/world/europe/virus-UK-universities.html?referringSource=articleShare

By Lauren Aratani

‘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 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/06/zoom-university-college-cost-students-in-person-experience

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