In his State of the Union Address on Tuesday night President Obama laid out a wide array of programs and initiatives including many in education. Most of them laudable and important, but I must confess one really got my attention. Roughly mid-way through his speech he proposed a Fix-it-First program, “to put people to work as soon as possible on our most urgent repairs.” To get this done he is Continue Reading »

In case you missed this higher ed news nugget, the number of students worldwide enrolled in post-secondary institutions outside their home countries rose to a remarkable 4.1 million in 2010. That’s up from 2 million globally mobile students just a decade earlier, and 0.8 million as recently as 1975, according to the annual Education at a Glance report released last week by the Organization for Continue Reading »