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3 avril 2019

Asking the Right Questions

By Matt Reed. The new study of the humanities at community colleges.
One full-time professor teaches five sections of twenty-five students each. 
Two adjunct professors teach one class each, also with twenty-five students per section. More...

3 avril 2019

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...

3 avril 2019

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...

3 avril 2019

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...

3 avril 2019

Friday Fragments - March 7, 2019

By Matt Reed. When my administrative career started, the conversations around class sections and scheduling had to do with how full they could run -- who would go over a cap, which caps were harder than others, and the like. It was all about trying to squeeze in as many people as possible. More...

3 avril 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...

3 avril 2019

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...

3 avril 2019

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...

3 avril 2019

Consumer Tip

By Matt Reed. A couple of days ago I had a conversation with someone who knows higher education well. She asked about things that parents of prospective community college students should know. More...

3 avril 2019

Early Results from Florida…

By Matt Reed. Trying to get placement right.
If there’s one thing that any decent American political scientist knows, it’s not to trust early results from Florida. More...

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