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 are you in? I asked the young woman. If you had left college as a first-year student, would we call you a failure, or would […]
Reconstituting the Ivy League in the 21st century? Nice shoutout to Fathom from Tamar Lewin @NYT. #highered
May 3, 2012 by
I just love being right. Early, yes, but that’s the thing about pioneering. Timing is everything. Fathom showed the way. #highered #macaulay
May 2, 2012 by
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 offer free online courses in a project aimed at attracting millions of online learners around the world, the universities announced Wednesday. Beginning this fall, a […]
Flat Stanley and me, or what I did for love of Hannah #highereducation.
April 23, 2012 by
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 the CUNY Presidents. But the best was an unexpected encounter at Oregon State University Library in Corvallis, where I was invited to tour the replica […]
I went looking for signs of positive change in higher education, and found too few. #macaulayhonors #highereducation
April 8, 2012 by
This week’s Chronicle of Higher Education.
Macaulay Marauders rock! Figures that they wrote the best cheer ever, listen here: #macaulayhonors
April 8, 2012 by
More memories of Prague and Zacler…thanks to Czech TV! #salasgift
March 28, 2012 by
As a doctor’s wife and doctor’s mother, I loved this online course in biology, suitable for St. Patrick’s day. #macaulayhonors
March 17, 2012 by
I learned a lot!
Great line from Czech Radio, “Sala’s Gift: A whole war in a box” #Salasgift
March 17, 2012 by
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 image of the original box, which of course was cardboard not tin…and was reminded of our beautiful NYPL exhibition. This case, which on July 4 […]
Could Prague have been more wonderful?
March 9, 2012 by
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 three days of meetings and interviews through the efforts of Mlada Fronta, my Czech publisher. I loved working with Tony Koci and Magdalena Potměšilová. We […]