Pope Francis has just concluded his most recent two-week synod with an exhortation that the Church and its members throw off their fear of change or challenge, and that, no matter our religio

 As the fall semester hits its stride, as the Jewish New Year of 5775 takes hold, and as we enter the first full week of October, an internationally important teachable moment is upon us:

 Some 30 years ago, my father, Norman Watson, once called a "visionary" in education, joined a small group of international — and internationally-minded — thinkers in an effort to integra

 As summer breathes its last hot sighs, new fall semesters are nigh. This is supposed to be a time of excitement, when new ideas, new books, new enthusiasms abound. It is a time of year when,

 As I sit among the mounds of paperasserie (questionably useful bits of paperwork), trying to prepare official-looking documents that will at once please various administrators and not numb th

Ah, vacation! At the end of July each year, I think about all those people in France who are readying themselves for “les grandes vacances" (big vacation), the month-long respite from the workad

 Pleased at its self-touted success in “Bring(ing) Four Free-Speech Lawsuits in One Day" on the first of July, the Philadelphia-based Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, or FIRE,

As the month-long World Cup competition in the beautiful game of football comes to an end, and as the three weeks of cycling's internationalized Tour de France hit their stride, having begun this year in England and continuing now in its home terrain on the continent, we who are engaged

 In an era of information plenty, if not excess or overload, many community college students, like others in the societies of which they are a part, are overwhelmed. Facts, events, activitie

*Labor Day is fêted around the world on the first of May. Workers of theworld are supposed to unite in an uplifting fight for rights.**But if one works part-time, one may have little effort left to f

On the one hand, new research results, as Eduardo Porter writes in his New York Times column of 12 November, 2013 (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/13/business/rethinking-the-income-gap-and-a-college-ed

 Papers are written, presentations made, programs proposed, and ideasexposed about the questionable "commitment" to their students, theircampuses, and their jobs in general demonstrated by part

 *The more you study, the more you know; the more you know, the more youforget; the more you forget, the less you know.... so why study? **And why should anyone study something as effete as physi