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My favorite posts in 2024

Trying (and failing) to predict college closure

How many colleges share identical names?

What's the point of citing Freire?

Is there something uncommon happening at Unity Environmental University?

Avoiding burnout in grad school

Why I was wrong about triple majoring in Persian

Did Richard Scarry's Busy People go to college?

Can you major in Esports?

What do university mission statements mean?

Hermeneutic reconstruction and the worlds we seek

How many universities have switched from a quarter system to a semester system?

Three books that made me go to graduate school

What do baseball announcers study in college?

"Small and homogenous"

Standardized testing and the theater of merit

College admissions tests are coming back

Chaim Potok and the fictional student's struggles

This campus must be a Beautiful Object

Three books about higher education worth reading

Everything lost was lost for good reason

Social science and wanting to be wrong

The Fastest Way to Get a Triple Major

Examining Language Major Nomenclatures

Grading grades

Some speculative typologies of student reactions to grading

Studying like a wrestler

Higher education statistics that say less than they seem to

What exactly is an "individualized major"?

"All Things to All People"

Why did Livvy Dunne major in Interdisciplinary Studies?

Ballet is not Dance.

Two semesters in review

Pay until it starts to hurt

What do you ask?

What comes after tertiary education?

Majors Great and Small

That voice saying you're an imposter is right

Storming the Court

Thank you for your service

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