Tuesday, October 14, 2008

College Students Still Face Voting Stumbling Blocks

College students are supposed to be able to vote where they go to school, but it's not always that easy. Today I wrote about why.

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Undergrads on the Bread Line

It's all the economy all the time at the moment; here's a piece I did for Time.com this week about undergrads who can't afford groceries turning to food banks instead.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Colleges Getting Hit by the Credit Crunch

Here's a piece I did for Time.com about how universities are getting hit by the financial meltdown.

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.