The Blackboard

When the fall semester began, several classes attempted streaks. No one expected all the classes to succeed, but it seemed especially unlikely that underclassmen would. Yet they succeeded.

Myers considers four particular questions or misconceptions that many prospective students have regarding the liberal arts.

The term "citizen humanities" argues for the complementary nature of work by academics and non-academics.

In trying to systematize relationships between words and humans, both medieval scholasticism and today’s automated dialogue sterilize the sources of human vitality.

The real work of judgment makes possible stability and repair, a work worth even one’s death, or, what may prove more difficult, a lifetime of obscure fidelity.

We must begin to see and name how deeply the modern higher education industry subverts the very nature of embodied, placed, limited humans.

Colleges and universities should focus on forming the uniquely human attributes that AI cannot replicate.

We don’t have to ride along.

In focusing on the global economy, universities often lose sight of the needs of local economies.

We've made it all the way from the overstepping of Orpheus, the land, and poetry into something our own lives can do (spill over as though water from a fountain--or, perhaps, light…

We knew last year’s streak was something special, and now we know it may have been the start of something.

How school uniforms foster a common life in an age of fragmentation.