May 3, 2021
Patricia McGuire is president of Trinity Washington University, a Catholic women’s institution in Washington, DC. Over three decades of leadership, she has committed the university to the service of Black and working-class women in their home community; Trinity’s student body is now 90% women of color and...
Apr 27, 2021
Michelle Fine is a distinguished social psychologist at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and a leading practitioner of Critical Participatory Action Research (C-PAR), research that takes on issues of injustice and social power through partnerships with community members most directly affected by...
Apr 22, 2021
College Unbound, a small, newly accredited college in Providence, Rhode Island, has been garnering a lot of positive attention lately—with good reason. It serves adult, working, parenting students, just the kind who are generally been ignored or underestimated by American higher education. In contrast to the...
Apr 12, 2021
Elaine Maimon has been an executive leader at three public universities, including Governors State University, south of Chicago, where she served as president from 2007 until 2020. She’s a forceful advocate for the educational needs of “new majority” students: working adults, veterans, students from...
Apr 5, 2021
Paul Hanstedt is Director of the Houston H. Harte Center for Teaching and Learning at Washington and Lee University and an innovative thinker and writer on undergraduate pedagogy, curriculum reform, and general education. He believes that higher ed has short-changed students by offering bland general education...