writing

  • The Avatar Machine: Cambridge, Jason Arday, and the Human Cost of Corporate Virtue

    If you wanted to script the ultimate inspirational blockbuster for modern higher education, you could not have written a more cinematic pitch than the rise of Jason Arday. In 2023, the University of Cambridge announced with massive global fanfare that it had appointed Arday as its Professor of the Sociology of Education. At just 37…

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  • Rebuilding Trust at $60K a Year: Inside Higher Ed’s Favorite PR Delusion

    If you spent any time logged into the virtual ether of The Chronicle of Higher Education’s flagship festival, “Building Trust During Change,” you were treated to one of the greatest spectacles in modern corporate theater. For days, thousands of senior university administrators, provosts in bespoke eyewear, and deans broadcasting from mahogany-paneled home offices gathered in…

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