Archive for the 'Higher Ed' Category

Editor’s Note: TOMS Shoes and Social Enterprise Chic

Monday, February 1st, 2010

TOMS Shoes has become a hit in both the business and fashion worlds while doing its part to help those who need it.
If you’ve somehow not heard of the company and its one-for-one mission, here it is: for every pair of shoes TOMS sells, it gives away one pair to a needy child. (“TOMS” comes [...]

Searching for Comedy in Higher Education

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

I had a blast in college. Yes, I worked hard, but I also screamed at the top of my lungs at Longhorn football games, played ultimate Frisbee in the park, wandered around the Drag for no reason at all and got excited about ordering a #1 combo from Junior, the best and most famous Wendy’s [...]

Editor’s Note: Is it Wrong to Call it Swine Flu?

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

We just published the Fall/Winter 2009 issue of Texas, the magazine for UT’s McCombs School of Business. I’m managing editor and wrote the cover story, “Diagnosing the H1N1 Pandemic.”
Business school? Isn’t that where they study boring things like derivatives and fair-value accounting? What does a global health emergency have to do with business school?
Well, one [...]

I Am a Grad School Widow*

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

I’ve lost my husband. He’s crossed over to a mysterious, distant plane where I cannot visit. It’s called grad school.
Oh sure, he tries to invite me into that world, showing me projects he’s working on and sharing a few stories from class. We’ve even spent time together with some of his classmates, exploring Mt. Lemmon [...]

Using Wordpress to Publish an Online Magazine – Part II – FAQ and Resources

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Below, I answer some questions that have come up a lot as I’ve shared about the process of using Wordpress to host an online magazine. Click here to read Part I, where I chronicled that experience and compared it to using a traditional Web site.
What are your readership stats?
Our print circulation is 85,000. Some stats on [...]

Using Wordpress to Publish an Online Magazine – Part I

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

As managing editor of the University of Texas McCombs School of Business alumni magazine, it’s my job to generate story ideas, interview sources, do background research, brainstorm art options, write feature articles and profiles, assign stories to our intern, edit copy and proofread layouts before printing.
But the fun doesn’t stop there. Thanks to this phenomenon [...]

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