Finishing your degree is amazing! But it isn't going to be exactly what you thought it would be. More...
ASU Goes For Profits
ASU is planning a new, for-profit online initiative. Let's discuss. More...
Asking the Right Questions
United Methodists, LGBTQ Exclusion and Diversity Progressives
By Eboo Patel. It would have been so much easier if the principal opponents of LGBTQ inclusion in the Methodist church were all rich, white, male, arrogant vulgarians. More...
Thoughts on Argosy
By Matt Reed. Argosy University, a well-known formerly for-profit university known for graduate programs in psychology and related disciplines, is either dead or dying, depending on the information source. This comes two years after a deeply weird buyout and conversion to nominally nonprofit status by the Dream Center, a move that I found mystifying at the time. More...
Some Concerns About Campus Identity Politics
By Eboo Patel. Diversity progressives should be careful about the kind of activism that poisons the atmosphere, because soon even they will be choking on the fumes. More...
Friday Fragments - March 7, 2019
What College Activists Can Learn From Hamilton
By Eboo Patel. Hamilton went from revolutionary college student to nation-builder. Does his example hold lessons for today’s student activists. More...
The Other Side of Free Tuition
By Matt Reed. As longtime readers know, I’m a fan of the idea of community colleges being tuition-free. It strikes me as the best hope we have of bringing excluded people into the advanced economy, of building an informed citizenry, and of generating the kind of workforce that can sustain long-term prosperity. More...
Whom Do Activists of Color Speak For?
By Eboo Patel. What happens if the community you are trying to speak for does not agree with your views?
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen is also a nonfiction writer whose essays frequently have a heavy helping of identity politics. Here he is in a piece from The New York Times in 2017 claiming that the standard “show don’t tell” wisdom of the typical American writing workshop reveals its white male supremacist DNA. More...