Tag: Education
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I recently read a LinkedIn post by Dominic Grasso, interim President of the University of Michigan, describing a convening in London hosted by the Royal Society and co-sponsored by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The meeting, titled “Knowledge Diplomacy as a Response to Knowledge Under Threat,” brought together leaders from academia, government, and…
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Moments arrive that expose the gap between the qualified leadership we claim to value and the leadership we actually choose. It reveals a quiet truth many people have understood for generations. The most vocal critics of equity initiatives have never been defending merit. They have been defending the informal networks that protected mediocrity as long…
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We are living through a moment that feels heavier than a cultural trend. Esquire recently described this period with unsettling accuracy by calling it an age of “Big Stupid.” The description is blunt, yet it captures a mood that is no longer hidden beneath the surface of public life. We are not simply indifferent to…
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Next week I’ll return to the University of Michigan’s Department of Psychology for the first time since I was an undergraduate psychology major in the 1990s. Though I’m on campus often, today I’m here for the Purdue versus Michigan game tonight, walking back into East Hall will feel different. It was in that building, decades…
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Trump’s New “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” Isn’t American at All—It’s Chinese
It was not proudly announced at a press conference or rolled out in a White House event. Instead, the media uncovered that the administration had quietly asked nine universities, including Penn, Vanderbilt, MIT, Dartmouth, USC, Arizona, Brown, Texas, and Virginia, to sign on to a so-called “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” The language…
Cloaking Inequity 