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I suppose everyone looks back on childhood thinking it was wondrous in some respect. For me, much of the wonder emanated from baseball. Growing up in Toronto with the expansion Blue Jays, I followed the team closely and remember being amazed at many things. For example, the fact the team played in a stadium built for Canadian...
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"At a time when a higher education has never been more important or more expensive,
too many students are facing a choice that they should never have to make: Either they
say no to college... or you do what it takes to go to college, but then you run the risk that you won't be able to pay it off because you've got so much...
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"The thing I'm insanely proud of right now is I think we've found the magic formula."
- Sebastian Thrun
What is the magic formula in online education? An interview with Sebastian Thrun, Founder and CEO of Udacity, released by InformationWeek on Tuesday yielded the following...
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Where I went to school, the traditional post-graduation path was to find a job, move to New York City and live in a small space with a large number of people. And so I duly got the job, found the apartment - three renovated bedrooms, on...
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Besides screaming kids and standard drama, family reunions at my house frequently involve a debate about the future of higher education. Like me, my brother has made his career in higher education. With a doctorate from an Ivy League..
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Two years ago we published our first University Ventures Letter on "job jugglers" - underemployed recent graduates forced to take multiple part-time jobs in order to make ends meet. We discussed how starting salaries had declined in the recession and wondered whether...
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Friday February 16, 2007 was the day I internalized the vital importance of management. My company, Wellspring, operated boarding schools and summer camps for treating childhood obesity. One of the schools, Wellspring Academy of California, was located...
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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times... in short, the period was... like the present period..."
- Charles Dickens
If you thought the only way in which the French Revolution was...
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There was a popular saying at one of my prior companies. Whenever someone came up with an idea that was less than grand we'd say that person was a candidate to appear on the cover of Bad Judgment Magazine.
The company was the leading organization of summer camps and...
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My first lesson about the importance of simplicity in higher education occurred in the early 1990s when Yale made a major investment in its telecommunications infrastructure. The grey-box security phones placed around campus at gates and outside residential colleges and classroom buildings...
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