My latest in Forbes: will #Covid and #Zoom, Coursera, Southern New Hampshire University,and @Google Career Certificates prove to be a passing tremor across the landscape of #highereducation — or do they signal The Big One? If your crystal ball […]
Affiliations and personal history
October 11, 2021 by
Since I write about education, technology, and media, I thought perhaps an extra disclosure of my affiliations, past and present, would be useful. I am a graduate of New York […]
The future of higher education is…omnichannel.
September 3, 2021 by
My recent article in Forbes took me back to a day when Barnes and Noble was the ubiquitous bookseller on Main Street USA and Amazon was a blip on the […]
Cassandra or A Broken Clock?
May 14, 2020 by
I have been a university administrator, consultant, board director, and faculty member and have worked in public, private, nonprofit, and forprofit educational institutions. Now that CoVid has pushed colleges and […]
Stephen King, do a Taylor Swift on Apple books!
July 1, 2015 by
Last week, Taylor Swift stared down Apple and stood up for the artists. Didn’t take long, Apple backed down. Rather cheerfully, I thought. So big win for Taylor Swift and […]
Who was your Fletcher? I’m listening to Charlie Parker and thinking about #Whiplash. You must see it.
January 4, 2015 by
I bet we have all had a Fletcher, someone who wanted the best from us. Or is it someone who wanted the best and got it in the worst way? […]
Two ends of my holiday table. #Passover
April 15, 2014 by
Two ends of my holiday table: one spans nine decades, the other is approaching just nine weeks. These are the new guests at my Passover celebration tonight: my new grandbaby […]
One thousand to-lists later, and @Beesy is a close miss. Can’t somebody build a better to-do manager?
February 13, 2014 by
I know i’m not alone in struggling to find a good way to manage my project lists, everything from the big ongoing stuff to the daily to-do. I know I’m […]
I am sincerely sorry to miss the first snowstorm of 2014. Really.
January 3, 2014 by
Fearing that my flight to Florida to visit my folks would be cancelled, I left yesterday. And so, thanks Jet Blue, here I sit, 62 degrees at 8am, devouring every […]
I love to vote. But the process is killing my love. Give me ten innovations to fix this ridiculous system.
November 5, 2013 by
1. I walk in, and someone has to look up the right district? table? for me to vote in. How about a big old sign — a blackboard — a […]