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 on the #futureofeducation needs refreshing, here’s an excellent place to start. An important new book by Arthur Levine and Scott Van Pelt on which #universities will thrive, survive, or wither.
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 City public schools: PS 148 and JHS Joseph Pulitzer Junior HS (remember those?) Jackson Heights, Queens; Kakiat Junior HS and Spring Valley High School. Hebrew […]
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 horizon. I was interviewed by the B&N CEO to be the new head of digital services. During the interview, I asked him: “Why aren’t you […]
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 universities to the breaking point, I look back on some of my writing and think sadly about how our response to today’s crisis is twisted […]
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 artists, and two bits for Apple. I’ve written before about frustration with Apple watch and Audible…wish we were getting the books for free (as Apple […]
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? Or is it someone who had absolutely no idea what our best was….and was just a sadistic bastard? I have had a few Fletchers in […]
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 and my parents, now 90 and 92. We took note of the unexpected similarities between them. They are much loved, and they couldn’t […]
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 not alone because I’ve read endless articles about getting organized. And tried dozens of methods, from Outlook to…. See? I’m so scattered: just writing about […]
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 word and image of the storm. NYC is never more beautiful than in the snow. And I miss the solidarity of family, colleagues, friends, the […]
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 cheerful map! That links the house or apartment building with the right place. 2. Now that I’m looking at ballots with six decades of service […]