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Select Writings |
WASHINGTON POST In a year in which student activism and free speech issues have dominated conversations on many campuses, and beyond, [Ferentz Lafargue] takes on the concerns of those who argue tha…
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Higher Ed |
January 27, 2017
As a new semester and a new presidential administration begin, the fraught political climate has some professors grappling with how, or if, to talk policy and politics in class.
Part ...
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TED Talks |
Since any meaningful discussion of politics is off limits at TED, the solutions advocated by TED’s techno-humanitarians cannot go beyond the toolkit available to the scientist, the coder, and the engi...
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Haiti |
May 4, 2011
Given that nearly half of Haiti’s population is under 25 years old and 80 percent of Haitians own a cellphone, Martelly’s affiliations with Haiti’s technorati and his decision to run a nim...
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Layup Line |
March 26, 2015
I always find comments about “egos” in discussions regarding college basketball players fascinating. Most of these guys have spent greater part of a decade playing on AAU/Traveling team...
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Micro-Barriers Loom Large for First-Generation Students – The Chronicle of Higher Education |
Reading Hillbilly Elegy, I thought about how much time we spend imploring students to seek guidance for obstacles of our own devising. We produce bureaucratic hurdles, then ask students to assume g…