Hey, You Sunk My Battleship!, or a bowling ball and a feather fall at exactly the same rate
I had a horrible “aha” moment on the flight back from Minneapolis, where I was attending CNI. One of the reasons I decided to leave a large R1 university to come to a small liberal arts college was because I thought it would be easier to transform this organization. If a large R1 university is an aircraft carrier which takes hours to turn around, then surely a small liberal arts college is like a Coast Guard lifeboat–agile and fast.
But then I realized I was wrong.
Yes, the R1 is an aircraft carrier on the open sea. But the … Continue Reading