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Life on an Unfinished Campus

I had some time to think last week, as I crossed the campus from a distant parking lot to my office in The Commons and then back again at each day’s end.  After seven years, the lot across from...

Posted: September 6, 2010, 6:07 PM

UMBC and the Kiplinger "Best Value" List

There are plenty of reasons to be skeptical about college rankings of any kind (except when they put UMBC at the top of the list, of course). Rankings are only as good as the factors that...

Posted: January 5, 2010, 2:21 PM