Tag: Pell Grants

  • Questions

    A candidate trying to decide between graduate schools recently asked me which “types of public administration, political, or civic problems you are attempting to provide solutions to with your research?  For example, which questions are you tackling right now?” Of course, right now I’m grading. But in a slightly more general sense of “right now,”…

  • If I ran the zoo…

    The National Association of Scholars is running a series on visions of the academy, amusingly based on the Dr. Seuss story about re-inventing a zoo. Dr. Seuss’s protagonist, young Gerald McGrew, suffers none of his sophisticated contemporaries’s deadly contempt for life as it is, or for his social surroundings.  His opening words are, “It’s a…