Category: Hello Goodbye

Summer’s Over, New Sources of Exhaustion on the Way

Morning all.  The good news is: the blog is back!  The bad news is: that means summer’s over.  My apologies. Not that “summer” has been more than a vague reference to warmer temperatures this year.  Instead of a mixture of research and downtime, what we’ve had this summer is – for most, anyway – an all-out effort to make a semester (fingers crossed) of remote teaching workable.  The aggregate sum of all these incredible efforts is a remote semester that might not be

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Half-done

Morning all.  This is the last blog before my usual summer break.  Service should resume on Monday, August 31st.  If you don’t hear from me then, check your spam box: often after I take a break, spam filters stop letting this e-mail through.  One housekeeping note: the pandemic has played hell with everyone’s usual schedule and one thing that got bumped on our end (because we reckoned everyone was too busy to pay attention) was the  second edition of our

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Final Friday

Okay folks, time for me to sign off for the year. Two housekeeping notes.  First, blog service will resume bright and early on January 6th.  Second, this will be my last-ever Friday blog.  Many of you have over the years asked how I manage to put out this blog every day.  The answer is that it is getting difficult for me to balance this with the growth of our business (it has been quite a good year at HESA Towers),

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Hit Pause

All right, everyone.  It’s the solstice today, and that’s pretty much the signal for everyone to press the pause button and wind things down for the summer.  This blog is no exception.  I’ll be back on August 26th, unlikely to be rested (packed schedule for the summer already), but hopefully recharged and for another year of data analysis, global updates and snark in roughly equal proportion (the way you all like it, right?) When I do these end-of-term things, I

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‘Bye

The term is coming to a close, and so it’s time for me to – as usual – thank all of you so much for having continued to read these jumbled, fevered ramblings for another 12 months.  If you have any comments or suggestions or even requests – just send them my way at info@higheredstrategy.com: I’m always looking for ideas. Happy holidays to you all and best wishes for the new year.  Be excellent to each other and all that. The

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