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“Course Hero.com” is one of several thousand sites selling academic support for baccalaureate and graduate students. The sites are unsupervised, presenting opportunities for several varieties of academic and commercial malfeasance. Course Hero’s funding—$14 million from private sources— and fee structure suggest that less than 1 million students buy the service. That’s a worrisome percentage of the roughly 21 million post-high school US enrollment. It also suggests that the site’s claim to be “a platform of more than 10 million students and educators across the globe” might be inflated. Course Hero’s history suggests that many leave in disgust. Although it claims ...

Mentorship Most of us have been asked to mentor in some form or another and/or to find mentors for our own development. The problem with mentorship is that many of us have differing assumptions about mentoring and the definition of mentorship itself. For most, the idea of mentoring implies an ongoing relationship of some type. Perhaps its a superior-subordinate relationship in which the junior provides sufficient deference to the senior. Perhaps it's more like a friendship based on a similarity of professional backgrounds and goals. Perhaps it's forced upon both parties by leadership. In any case, how can we do it better, if at all? Questions: What ...

In most countries there are few, if any, educated health administation professionals. For example, hospitals are typically run by clinicians who rotate annually into the administrative position while still seeing patients on a part-time basis. These situations beg for health management professionals and the development of local health administration education. I'm involved in numerous projects and programs (e.g., China, Ethiopia, Haiti) to globalize health administration education into developing and transitional nations. I'm curious to find out who else might be doing the same and what we might be able to learn from one another about these exp ...