From the Editor, November 2009 
  
This month Jim Markel asks, “What if?” What if the assumptions we make when evaluating a proposal prove to be off the mark?  What if we had gone another way?  Obviously, we have to base our decision on something and past experience is the most likely foundation.  
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Commentary, November 2009
Old Data/New Reality
Neil Markee, Purchasing Link, Editor in Chief

About the only relief from the discussion in newspaper articles of the adverse effects of the recession on higher education has been the occasional scandal at institutions that are big-time (or would-be big-time) players in athletics and the continuing drumbeat of ethical shortcomings in sponsored medical-research areas.  Although the national economy seems to be in recovery, there hasn't been much good news concerning higher education.
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Commentary, November 2009
Roads Taken and Not Taken
By James C. Markel, CEO Massachusetts Higher Education Consortium

"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both and be one traveler, long I stood and looked down one as far as I could to where it bent in the undergrowth..." —Robert Frost
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