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Some campuses of the University of North Carolina system are mulling getting rid of history, political science, and various others of more than 20 “low productive” programs. The University of Southern Maine may drop physics. And governors in Florida, North Carolina and Wisconsin have questioned whether taxpayers should continue subsidizing public universities for teaching the humanities.

Do Your Homework Fortunately, whether or not Google makes a commenting widget isn't that big a deal on its own. Maybe they will or maybe they won't, and maybe it'll fail again or maybe it won't. But the key lesson to take away here is that we know a few things are wrong with the trade press in the technology world: In tech financial coverage, there is a focus on valuation, deals and funding instead of markets, costs, profits, losses, revenues and sustainability. In tech executive coverage, there is a focus on personalities and drama instead of capabilities and execution. In tech product coverage, there is a focus on features and announcements instead of evaluating whether a product is meaningful and worthwhile. Technology trade press doesn't treat our industry as a business, so much as a "scene"; If our industry had magazines, we'd have a lot of People but no Variety, a Rolling Stone, but no Billboard.

Over the last couple years, a lot of schools have started to use CRMs for education purposes. They’ve done it because their LMSs and SIS’s aren’t getting the job done. It’s a great idea that works well in marketing, but not so well in learning.

In education, we don’t need CRM. We need a new category of tools--Learning Relationship Management--to: make sure that each student has a personal learning plan that aligns with their long-term ambition for life enable mentors, coaches, advisors, and instructors to collaborate to help students succeed. provide for digital learning communities that strengthen informal learning ensure that each student has exactly what they need to reach their goals allow schools to connect better and more relevant content to their students allow schools to connect with industry to make sure that learners are ready to be productive and self-sufficient upon graduation

LMSs don’t cut it because they put the classroom at the center, not the students and their goals. CRM doesn’t cut it because it has no role for students to manage their own relationships.