Professor Jim Hearn's Resource Website
The links below may provide some wisdom, insight, inspiration, and humor.
TED Talk: On Diversity: Access Ain't Inclusion (Anthony Jack)
Podcasts from Revisionist History:
Season 1, Episodes 4, 5, and 6 on access, marketing, and money in higher education admissions
Season 4, Episodes 1 and 2 on admissions testing and elitism in higher education
Season 6, Episode 2 on the problems of rankings in higher education
Michael Sandel on The Tyranny of Merit
TED Talk: What Makes a “Good College” – And Why It Matters (Cecilia Orphan)
Some Memorable Commencement Addresses:
Julia Alvarez, Middlebury, 2015
Joseph Brodsky, University of Michigan, 1988
Stephen Colbert, University of Virginia, 2013
Will Ferrell, University of Southern California, 2017
John F. Kennedy, Harvard, 1956
Michael Lewis, Princeton, 2012
Lin-Manual Miranda, University of Pennsylvania, 2016
Michelle Obama, North Carolina A&T, 2012
Conan O'Brien, Dartmouth, 2011
George Saunders, Syracuse, 2013
Documentary: "Starving the Beast" on state funding of public higher education
Documentary: "FailState" on troubles in for-profit postsecondary institutions
60 Minutes Segment: Deep Springs College
A Moment in Time: Agnes Scott College Shocks the Princeton Guys (Slate Article)
Some Advice for Academic Life
Some Humor
Conan O'Brien's Admissions Scandal
From The Onion:
What Do Tuition Payments Cover?
Monty Python on Governance and Leadership