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From: Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez
Subject: Weekly Briefing: Hacking College
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If you’re a regular reader of The Chronicle (and if you’re not, you should be), you know Scott Carlson, a longtime senior writer here and the author of our indispensable Edge newsletter. Scott is also the author of an essential new book, Hacking College: Why the Major Doesn’t Matter — and What Really Does, which builds on ideas Scott and his co-author, Ned Laff, developed in The Chronicle. Check out those articles and buy a copy of Hacking College.
In the 1950s, America declared science an “endless frontier,” and the National Science Foundation was established to extend the limits of human knowledge. Are we now at the end of a golden age of American scientific innovation? That possibility haunts an arresting new essay by Carly Anne York in The Chronicle Review. “The same system that boosted the United States to scientific dominance is being recklessly dismantled,” she warns.
A wave of bills targeting tenure at public colleges have been introduced by Republican lawmakers in seven states during this year’s legislative sessions. Attacks on tenure are nothing new. But as our Maya Stahl reports, this time might be different.
—Evan Goldstein
