Reconstituting the Ivy League in the 21st century? Nice shoutout to Fathom from Tamar Lewin @NYT. #highered

Today’s NYT coverage of the Harvard/MIT announcement. I am remembering a 2001 0r 2002 interview with a Yale student newspaper on whether Fathom was a success or failure. What year […]

I just love being right. Early, yes, but that’s the thing about pioneering. Timing is everything. Fathom showed the way. #highered #macaulay

Harvard, MIT Announce Online Learning Partnership   By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass. May 2, 2012 (AP)   Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have joined forces to […]

Flat Stanley and me, or what I did for love of Hannah #highereducation.

I carried Flat Stanley around for about a month; he and I had a lot of fun touring Zabars, going to the opera, and hanging out in a meeting of […]

I went looking for signs of positive change in higher education, and found too few. #macaulayhonors #highereducation

This week’s Chronicle of Higher Education.

Macaulay Marauders rock! Figures that they wrote the best cheer ever, listen here: #macaulayhonors

More memories of Prague and Zacler…thanks to Czech TV! #salasgift

As a doctor’s wife and doctor’s mother, I loved this online course in biology, suitable for St. Patrick’s day. #macaulayhonors

I learned a lot!  

Great line from Czech Radio, “Sala’s Gift: A whole war in a box” #Salasgift

Met a Czech radio broadcaster in Prague, who posted this about my mother’s letters.  Thanks David Vaughan! Sala’s Gift:  A Whole War in a Tin Box Went looking for an […]

Britannica should have been Wikipedia. Blockbuster should have been Netflix. So hard to recognize the seeds of your destruction and get off the railroad tracks. #change #university

Could Prague have been more wonderful?

The publication of SALA’S GIFT in Czech was a cause for celebration; that I was there to celebrate in Prague made it all the more wonderful. I had a wonderful […]