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Exit Interview
A. Jay Adler on leaving academe
Apr 9
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Does Your News Feed Pass The SMELL Test?
Friends, My mother is in town this week, so I’m sharing an updated piece from the archive. It should be new to at least half of you. I’m reminded every…
Mar 19
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Private thread: Are Profpreneurs Good for Students?
One of Michael D. Smith’s anecdotes in The Abundant University strikes me as eerily similar to current trends in college athletics. He tells a story…
Feb 23
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Michael D. Smith's False Prophecy for Higher Education
I was driving back from Maryland to Pennsylvania on Black Friday when I tuned in to Steve Levitt’s Freakonomics podcast. Typically I don’t associate my…
Feb 20
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The Rise of the Homeschool Brigade
A startling article in The Washington Post reports that even two years after COVID lockdowns, homeschool remains the fastest-growing form of education…
Nov 14, 2023
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The Librarians Are Not OK
A decades-long attack on their status is bad for us all
Oct 17, 2023
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University administrators have forgotten what leadership is
Earlier this week I learned that college leaders decided, without consulting faculty or staff, to shutter The Gettysburg Review, a legendary journal…
Oct 13, 2023
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The sports boom will bust universities
The takeover is nearly complete
Oct 3, 2023
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Private thread: Can the humanities save cities and companies money?
And a wilderness poem
Sep 8, 2023
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Do English professors think of themselves as priests?
A dialogue with one of my readers
Aug 29, 2023
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J. Hector St. John de Crévecoeur: Essential or extra to an American education?
Why I believe everyone should read Letters from an American Farmer
Aug 22, 2023
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How do you define quality in higher education?
Why everyone should care about the state of academe
Jul 21, 2023
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