Author: SCM

From Good: Citizens have always made their marks on cities—graffiti has been an urban presence for millennia—but land use and city planning have long been the province of professionals and bureaucrats. As a result, many urban...

From Harvard Business Review blogs: Why isn’t talent on your shopping list now that your company is flush with cash? With more than a trillion dollars on the collective balance sheet, U.S. companies are poised to spend...

From the Chronicle Review: By Bruce Krajewski As an antidote to Beloit College’s annual Mindset List (the latest version is being released this week), designed to orient faculty and administrators to the cultural...

From the Chronicle of Higher Education: By Don Troop As classes resume this fall, take a good look at those first-year students armed with their laptops, notebooks, tablets, and smartphones. They are the first college freshmen...

From Education Week blogs by Marilyn Rhames: Back in the days when I had no idea of what was actually required to be a good teacher, back when I was in grad school studying education theory and making foolish assumptions about...

By Neal Peirce, citiwire.net: Maybe you’ve seen the headlines — “Engineers Warn Infrastructure Crumbling” — accompanied by stories saying it’s imperative we spend billions, sometimes trillions to fix America’s deteriorating...

From the Chronicle of Higher Education: By Rachel Wiseman At a time when women are consistently outperforming men in college enrollment and completion, women tend to value higher education more highly than men do and believe it...

Transportation infrastructure accounts for 20% to 40% of all urban land. These systems grossly enable global warming, with transit now representing an outsize 30% of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. But for as little as...

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