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Monthly Archives: March 2012
Love and Money: The Funding of Higher Education in America
The right time to think about the funding of higher education in America is now. We are moving into the season for offers of admission, offers of financial aid, acceptances, negotiations, withdrawals, and wait lists. Some colleges will “make their … Continue reading
You’ll Need To Go Wide
The president of Centre College must have punched me in the shoulder a half dozen times during lunch. John Roush ─ affable, amiable, infectiously good-humored, and every bit still the star running back he once was ─ entertained Scott Lurding … Continue reading
Sioux City Sue
In my life I have had, for example, the cuckoo theme from Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony get planted in my head, running incessantly for hours: coo-cuckoo, coo-cuckoo, coo-coo, over and over again. That’s not so bad, compared to what happened recently … Continue reading
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Blowin’ in the Wind
Wind can erode, deposit, sweep away, or soothe. It brings plain news, or subtleties we make out in its wails and murmurs. Bob Dylan told us once that the answer was blowin’ in the wind. These days, in American higher … Continue reading