Albion College president Mathew Johnson resigns
Mathew Johnson will become president of the Commission for Public Purpose in Higher Education, which Albion College is launching.
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Mathew Johnson will become president of the Commission for Public Purpose in Higher Education, which Albion College is launching.
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The move will place the small mid-Michigan private college at the center of the most important conversations in higher education.
A major benefit is that it encourages them to reach levels of productivity and sophistication that they might not have attempted otherwise.
The ‘Flagship’ Folly The nautical metaphor is a shoddy classifier of colleges — but a clear signal of higher ed’s obsession with status. Dave Plunkert for The Chronicle The Review April 28, 2021 American higher education is full of jargon. We have all kinds of bamboozling lingo to categorize different types of colleges: SLACs, HBCUs, R1s, MSIs, PWIs, “mega-universities” — the list goes on. While many of these terms are helpful, others are less so. Consider, for instance, “elite” colleges. This term suggests everyone has...