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Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Lawdy.

I've been so busy with Ladner ladeeda that I haven't had a chance to blog about a number of intriguing university-related opinion pieces that have just appeared.

There's continued fallout, for instance, from the front-page New York Times article about Ivy League women undergraduates who anticipate leaving the world of work when they have children, and I particularly want to respond to Richard Posner's take on it. There's the recent David Brooks column in the New York Times about profound inequalities in college access and quality in America. And, finally, there are a couple of articles in the November Atlantic magazine about the substance of a college education and, again, about inequities at the heart of higher education in this country.

I'll provide links to all of these, as well as commentary, later in the day.
Posted at: 9/27/2005 02:56:00 PM