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
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
Some Advice for Academic Life
Conan O'Brien's Admissions Scandal
Agnes Scott College Surprises the Princeton Guys (Slate Article)
From The Onion:
What Do Tuition Payments Cover?
Monty Python on Governance and Leadership