Friday, September 26, 2008

Unwelcome Visitors at the Ole Miss' Debate: the Ku Klux Klan

McCain has decided to go to tonight's debate at Ole Miss after all, but the controversy isn't over. Here's a piece I did for Time.com about the visit planned by some unwelcome spectators tonight: the Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.

Monday, September 22, 2008

Will Business Schools Learn from Wall Street's Crisis?

Here's a piece I did for Time.com on the financial-meltdown story from my higher-ed vantage point. It's about how business schools are changing the way they teach risk management--and whether it matters.

Saturday, September 13, 2008

21 Ways to Serve America

To coincide with "ServiceNation," the national service summit and Presidential candidates' forum that TIME co-sponsored this week, I contributed short pieces on voluntourism and conservation, among other topics, to this week's cover package. (One of the things I found most interesting: the biggest statistical difference between volunteers and non-volunteers is the amount of TV they watch.)

Friday, September 5, 2008

Getting Strangers to Pay Tuition


It's back-to-school time, and for this week's issue (the cover's at left), I did a Q & A with a rising NYU freshman who's asking strangers to pay his tuition $2.50 at a time. (It's actually working!) I also wrote a piece about him for Time.com.