The Sandbox

A flat-out love letter to leaders.

We often complain talk about higher ed as if it were one thing. While we share many problems, not everyone experiences the same things. How about some compassion for those who aren’t you?

“The charm of stepping out of today’s messy demands into a sort of theme park in which presidents are still respected and weighty cultural leaders.”

You have to keep going, even when all you want to do is lie in bed in a dark room.

Presidents are mostly optimists. Here’s what they're wishing will be different next year.

Fancy-pants universities assumed their prestige made them financially invincible. Um, maybe not?

A great idea in theory. In practice? Sometimes.

Even highly successful people sometimes aren’t the best readers of their own work. Or their own skill set.