So I've heard a lot about Google Wave recently, mostly as I've been getting google alerts about cyberinfrastructure, metadata, and cloud computing and trying to view those through the lens of potential effects on higher education and higher education administration specifically. I'm reading a lot about e-archives and open access and scholarly ( Read more... )

I'm in a crazy emotional state today ( Read more... )

"We can only be faithful to democracy itself if we resolve our differences by investigation and open-minded debate. In that fact lies our ultimate strength as well as our present weakness; in that fact lies also the call to service for the liberal student and teacher.

One of the chief causes of our confusion is our false sense of the uses of ( Read more... )

I just participated in the most fascinating meeting I've been in since I started this higher ed gig. A group of international university administrators visited MSU as part of a tour around US colleges and universities to find out how things work here. There were people from Nigeria, Oman, Qutar, Syria, and two women from Saudia Arabia, both ( Read more... )