Category: college
+ american historical association, college, comics, graphic memoir, healthcare, mat johnson, mayim bialik, shane patrick doyle, ted closson
The Costs of Graduate School and Healthcare
On January 20, Mat Johnson posted on Twitter about his insulin falling out of the refrigerator and his kid picking it up and placing it in the freezer, thus ruining it. Insurance would not replace the insulin, which costs $800, and Johnson pointed out that luckily he has enough to cover it. However, if he could not cover it, he may actually die, as … Read More The Costs of Graduate School and Healthcare
+ college, higher education, higher education in America, history of higher education, liberal arts, thomas r dew, university, william and mary
Are Colleges Just Vocational Schools?
In my last post, I looked at the opening paragraph of the University of Georgia’s 1785 charter and how it relates to some common threads running through the early republic. Today, I want to take a moment and look at a section from Thomas R. Dew‘s “An Address Delivered before the Students on William and Mary at the Opening of he College, on Monday, … Read More Are Colleges Just Vocational Schools?
+ african american literature, american literature, charlottesville, chronicle of higher education, college, david walker, early american literature, How Universities Embolden White Nationalists, Literature, louisiana literature, marcia Chatelain, mississippi literature, native american literature, noconfederatesyllabus, Pedagogy, southern literature, thomas jefferson
How Can We Listen and Learn from Our Students After Charlottesville?
Last Friday, Marcia Chatelain’s “How Universities Embolden White Nationalists” in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Chatelain begins by talking about the white nationalists who descended upon Charlottesville and how some people see them and just say, “They’re just ignorant!” However, that is not the case. They are college educated, and as Chatelain notes, Richard Spencer went to UVa, Duke, and The University of Chicago. University … Read More How Can We Listen and Learn from Our Students After Charlottesville?
Students and My Trip to the ICU!
“Dad! DAD! Daaaaaaad. . . ” As I lay in my bed in the CVICU last week, I could not sleep. Partly because of the medicine I was on for my pneumonia, but also because the screams from another room, one which I could not see, penetrated the air. At various times throughout the night, I heard a man scream out for his dad … Read More Students and My Trip to the ICU!
