Rob Jenkins

4 days ago | jamesgmartin.center | Rob Jenkins

What is happening right now in the Ivy League, involving some of the nation’s most prestigious institutions, is nothing less than a tragedy. And I mean that literally, in the classical sense.

1 week ago | punchline-gloucester.com | Rob Jenkins

The former Inchcape motor dealership site, in one of the busiest parts of Cheltenham, is up for grabs. The lease for the land, at the junction of Tewkesbury Road and Colletts Drive, is being marketed by Latitude Real Estate on behalf of Altitude Asset Management. It follows Volkswagen unexpectedly closing its Inchcape dealership earlier this year, marking the German car giant's departure from Cheltenham.

1 week ago | punchline-gloucester.com | Rob Jenkins

An independent hardware store in Bourton-on-the-Water, thought to be the oldest shop in Gloucestershire, will close for good at the end of November. Hartwells has been an ironmongers in the village since 1805. It also runs a bicycle hire service from its site in High Street. Owner David Barker said his landlord planned to sell the building and had recently decided not to renew Hartwells' lease. He said: "He doesn't want a tenant there while he's trying to sell the building.

1 week ago | punchline-gloucester.com | Rob Jenkins

An independent hardware store in Bourton-on-the-Water, thought to be the oldest shop in Gloucestershire, will close for good at the end of November. Hartwells has been an ironmongers in the village since 1805. It also runs a bicycle hire service from its site on the High Street. Owner David Barker said his landlord planned to sell the building and had recently decided not to renew Hartwells' lease. He said: "He doesn't want a tenant there while he's trying to sell the building.

1 week ago | theepochtimes.com | Rob Jenkins

6/15/2025|Updated: 6/15/2025CommentaryIn May of 2011, I wrote the following words in the Chronicle of Higher Education: “Online learning has become the third rail in American higher-education politics: Step on it and you’re toast.” In so doing, I planted my foot squarely on that electrified third rail. Rob Jenkins is an associate professor of English at Georgia State University—Perimeter College and a higher education fellow at Campus Reform.