As the Boeing 737 rumbled down Runway 23 at Julius Nyerere International Airport and reached VR, I knew I was about to take off - away from the stillness of…
I was in Tanzania over the past 5 days — a country under lockdown amid election-related violence. Internet access was shut down, and even the cellular network was faint and…
The White House is being torn down. Not all of it, of course — just enough to make room for a ballroom. A gaudy one, I’m sure. If that doesn’t…
Right now, millions of high school students around the world are hunched over keyboards, writing what they’ve been told might define their futures. And on the other side of this…
I’m not a religious guy, but every once in a while, I come across something in scripture that feels less like dogma and more like truth. This verse from the Bhagavad…
Seventeen years is a strange period of time. It’s long enough that the sharp edges of grief soften, but short enough that the memory of a voice, a laugh, or…
The sound of feet against stone, moving in unison. The crack of sticks meeting in rhythm. A circle widening, tightening, spinning faster with every beat. Pure exhilaration! When I was…
“Where is your presence of mind?” When I was growing up, my dad would ask me this question whenever I seemed distracted or careless. It wasn’t a gentle question.…
This week, I’ve been in Gothenburg, where thousands of international educators are gathered for the EAIE annual conference. The days here have been filled with conversations about mobility, belonging, and…
Universities in the U.S. are bracing for the headline everyone has been expecting - a significant decline in international student enrollments. But the numbers are only the surface. Behind the…
At our g2 experience last week, a counselor was telling me about what many are seeing this year. Students feed the same prompt into an AI, and out comes the…
Last Friday, I was sitting at Changi Airport in Singapore, ready to fly to Bangalore — a flight I was looking forward to, because it was taking me “home”. Everything…