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Early in the morning of April 6, 1993, I found myself standing among several thousand people in the middle of Franklin Street in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. We were all very drunk, incredibly happy, and extremely cold. The party had started on…
December 16, 2021
Article at The Chronicle of Higher Education
College degrees are assets. Or at least they are sufficiently asset-like that many people are willing to borrow large amounts of money to obtain them. Degrees unlock valuable parts of the labor market and yield returns in the form of additional…
November 05, 2021
Article at The Chronicle of Higher Education
In 2013 I wrote a Chronicle column about the University of Pennsylvania’s Master of Applied Positive Psychology program. I chose the MAPP program because it sent me some goofy unsolicited marketing emails, so, fair game! And it represented trends I…
August 05, 2021
Article at The Chronicle of Higher Education