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State Representative Reuven Carlyle is a smart guy with big ideas and big shoes to fill. He has recently published a three part series on higher education on the Official Reuven Carlyle Blog. The first and third posts skim the surfaces of a wide variety of higher ed topics. Some of the ideas are trenchant…

In William Styron’s 1979 novel Sophie’s Choice, the main character Sophie Zawistowska is forced at gunpoint on an Auschwitz train platform to choose which of her two children will live and which will die in the gas chamber. Washington state higher education is certainly not comparable to the horrors of Auschwitz, but professors at our…

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois quarreled over how best to educate Black American youth. While both were looking for the best way to improve African Americans’ overall place in the U. S. economy, Washington, the founder of Tuskegee Institute, argued that young Black people…