[As ever, a holiday week series of wishes for the AmericanStudies Elves—this time focused on some of the communities and folks I love most. Leading up to a special post on a holiday wish for us all!]
One of the big
stories of the last month (at least in the worlds of higher ed and scholarly
Twitter) was the creation of a new “university” (scare quotes very, very
intended), The University of Austin. In her Tweet announcing and describing
this alternative “educational” institution, journalist Bari Weiss argued that “higher
ed is broken.” [NOTE: I’m not hyperlinking to any of the promotional materials;
you can find ‘em out there if you’d like!] I couldn’t disagree more, but one
thing higher ed—and especially
public higher ed—definitely is is broke. So before I turn for the rest of
the week’s wishes to folks who are literally part of my family, I wanted to
make a wish for a community that has over my 17 years here become home and family
to be sure: my public university, Fitchburg State. AmericanStudies Elves, may a
new year bring the funding and support that public higher education, and public
education overall, so desperately needs and so powerfully deserves.
Next wish
tomorrow,
Ben
PS. What wishes
would you beam out to the Elves?
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