Historically Thinking
From the beginning of the university in the middle ages, relations between town and gown – between students and citizens – began badly and got worse. Perhaps the lowest point was the St. Scholastica Riot in Oxford …
College Towns as Talent Hubs
College Towns as Talent Hubs … Communities can leverage institutions of higher education to lure knowledge workers to new regions.
Innovation and Accreditation
Some of the readers of my book Alternative Universities, while excited at the idea of enterprise-level innovation in higher education, tell me in the same breath that it would be difficult to actually start any of these universities. …