Some interesting links that have come my way:

Who pays the hidden cost of University research? This is specifically focused on the University of California, but I wonder how it plays out here.

Texas students could be required to seek off-campus learning options. Closer to home. I thought the best criticism in the discussion in the article was “why require this when it’s going to happen organically?” I think higher education in general has been too slow in exploiting the options provided by modern communication technologies.

What Google Could Learn From Pixar. via DaringFireball, who highlights this:

Despite an unbroken string of 11 blockbuster films, Catmull regularly says, “Success hides problems.”

Ain’t that the truth. I think the successes we had in the 1990’s hid many of our problems well into this past decade.