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Navigating college as a first generation student: An interview with Alvina Atkinson

As a first-generation college student, where did you draw inspiration for attending college and how did you develop that college mindset? AA: I remember the first time I heard the word college. I was in first grade and a teacher said to me, “Alvina, if anyone asks you if you are going to college, your answer should be yes.” That moment stands out in my mind because at the time, I did not know what college was, and I could not imagine someone ever approaching me and asking me if I was going to college. But surprisingly, the question did come up, and I do remember saying, “yes.”

Majority-Minority Myths | Dissent Magazine

The Great Demographic Illusion: Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream by Richard Alba Dangerously Divided: How Race and Class Shape Winning and Losing in American
 Politics by Zoltan L. Hajnal The Case for Identity Politics: Polarization, Demographic Change, and Racial Appeals by Christopher T. Stout University of Virginia Press, 2020, 268 pp. In a commencement address at the University of California, San Diego in 1997, President Bill Clinton spoke of a time when white people would no longer constitute a majority in the United States. In the decades since, the idea that growing diversity will bring about a “majority-minority” America in the near future has become a widespread belief across the ideological spectrum, propelled by periodic Census updates, like a report that 2013 marked the first year that more nonwhite babies had been born in the United States than white ones.

A More Principled Vision for Higher Learning

Education Next Jonathan Marks urges a recommitment to reason by Jonathan Marks As reviewed by J. Grant Addison In Let’s Be Reasonable, Jonathan Marks argues that higher education should rededicate itself to the project of liberal education. Taking his cue from John Locke, Marks describes the aim of liberal education as creating a certain type of person: that is, a reasonable one. “Reason,” as opposed to syllogism or simple debate, is both a habit of mind and a standard to hold while pursuing truth. “Our way of talking captures the sense, still alive in us despite the resolute unseriousness of public speech, that reason is not only an authority but also the kind of authority that is an honor to obey and a disgrace to betray, the sense that there’s such a thing as conduct unbecoming a reasoner,” he writes. Through study of great books and guided engagement with an academic community, liberal education seeks to “answer the question of what we are and what the bes

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