Two Handed Warriors

Young Americans are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled Than Ever Before–and More Miserable by Joanna Chau Millennials, the generation of young Americans born after 1982, may not be the caring, socially conscious environmentalists some have portrayed them to be, according to a study described in the new issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. The study, which [...]

As a follow up to the J.R. Miller’s wildly successful article “Flipped Theology: How Flipping Your Classroom Increases Learning,” we turned to one of the top slideshares on the new teaching revolution in higher education. by Alvaro Gonzalez-Alorda Six Key Drivers of Educational Technology to Watch and Five Challenges Higher Education Institutions need to Face [...]

Two TED messages on education by Sir Ken Robinson pinpoint many of the problems (and some of the solutions) facing education today. How Schools Kill Creativity . . Bring on the Revolution

Wisdom and Knowledge in the Age of Information  ”Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”                       —Arthur C. Clarke’s Third Law In 2006, chess champion Vladimir Kramnik was defeated by a computer in a match, two games to four. It was not unheard of for [...]

by Benjamin Ginsberg Until very recently, American colleges and universities were led primarily by their faculties. In his new book, The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters, Benjamin Ginsberg argues that the explosive growth of administration staff (whom he refers to as a ‘deanlets”), and the decline in faculty influence [...]

The first shot in the revolutionary future of higher education?

Part three of a three part series: What’s in a Name? The Presence of God! It was a Terrible, Horrible, No good, Very bad day. That’s what it was because after school my mom took us all to the dentist, and Dr. Fields found a cavity just in me. “Come back next week and I’ll [...]

Part two of a three part series: What’s in a Name? The Presence of God! I went to sleep with gum in my mouth and now there’s gum in my hair and when I got out of bed this morning I tripped on the skateboard and by mistake I dropped my sweater in the sink [...]

While college enrollment is at an all-time high, college learning may be at an all-time low.

ay Barnes, President of Bethel University and Consummate Servant Leader, shares “the influencers who influenced me.”