Higher education performs two critical functions: dissemination of knowledge and information (education), and certification of that knowledge and information (credentialing). We spend the majority of our work in higher education on the first half of that equation. We argue about relevance and value, about teaching and research, and wrestle endlessly about better ways to help…
Month: October 2016
Dominican American Studies and Empowerment
There is no one best model to understand immigration to the United States. It is shaped – uniquely – by country of origin, politics, history, and people. Two countries share the island of Hispaniola: Haiti and the Dominican Republic. From the early part of the 20th century and President Theodore Roosevelt’s interventionist foreign policy, the…
Civic Engagement and Civic Responsibility
Meira Levinson is an educator who walks the walk and talks the talk. A Harvard professor, she is trained in philosophy (Yale and Oxford) and has taught middle school in Atlanta in Boston. She is prolific – five books thus far – and influential, sitting on several boards and organizations. Her primary focus is civic education.…