MoneyLaw‘s Jim Chen (a former University of Minnesota law school professor and new dean at the University of Louisville) posted his take on Tom Sullivan’s defense of tenure related to the University of Minnesota’s quest to become one of the top three public research universities in the world (see also last week’s EF note). He [...]

Posts will be sparse over the next couple weeks as I’ll be busy: revisiting Budapest, spelunking about Moravian wine cellars, investigating the towns and castles of Slovakia… oh, and presenting at next week’s JTET conference in Debrecen, Hungary…! Comments

Dan, the guy behind Higher Ed Chat, is starting-up a Codex of Terrible Higher Ed Marketing. He writes: There will be a few categories: 1. “They Paid Someone to Design This?!” A list of the most poorly designed college websites. 2. “This Video is Supposed to Inspire… Whom?” A list of the cheesiest and most [...]

Just a quick note… Scott McLeod at Dangerously Irrelevant compiled a list of his take at what the top 30 education blogs might look like, based on Technorati rankings. He ranks himself at #24. Congratulations, Scott! The list, itself, is interesting. Read his post, then download the Excel file. Comments

Since traffic to this site is typically down in August, while most visitors are on break, I used this opportunity to redesign the site. This new blog theme is based on the Leia Theme created by Kapikua. After a little tweaking, it is now translated in English and supports WordPress widgets. Other changes include: Google [...]