Bridging the Gap Between Higher Ed’s Rhetoric and Reality
The common thread running through all that I’ve learned? We live in a nation increasingly anxious and angry over real and widening gaps. Gaps between the more educated and less educated. The well-off and the economically vulnerable. Urbanites and rural residents. White and non-white. And the list goes on. Beneath all of it is a sense that a significant part of our nation has been left behind, that the state of our union is more fractured than we realized.
