The long Independence Day weekend gave me pause to think, through the flags, fireworks, speeches, social media posts, patriotic merchandise, and the choreography of national celebration. There is something moving about watching…
Tomorrow, America will celebrate its 250th birthday. There will be flags, cookouts, and fireworks. There will be speeches about freedom, courage, sacrifice, independence, democracy, and the enduring promise of the…
Twenty-five years ago, a Bollywood movie gave us one of the greatest cricket matches ever filmed.
For those who have never seen it, Lagaan is an Oscar nominated Indian film set in…
There is a new fantasy being sold to students as advice. Yes, there is a growing anger around AI on campuses, the student protests, the booing of commencement speakers, the…
Everyone, it seems, has discovered artificial intelligence. Or at least everyone has discovered that saying “AI” is now a requirement for staying relevant in the conversation. I find myself using…
At 1:03 AM EST last Thursday morning, in the middle of NAFSA, SecondContact.app went live on the App Store. I had wished it had happened a couple of weeks earlier.…
By the time this reaches you, the NAFSA Annual Conference will be drawing to a close. The booths will begin their slow dismantling. The banners will come down. The last…
In a few days, thousands of us who work in international education will make our way to NAFSA, the largest annual gathering of our field. Flights will land. Hotel lobbies…
Dear graduates, And by graduates, I do not only mean those walking across a stage this month in caps and gowns. I mean every student standing at the edge of…
I flew back to the United States from India last night and was reminded, yet again, that some of us spend our lives returning to places that both know us…
I have been traveling across India, visiting high schools and speaking with students about their future readiness. Standing in rooms full of young people, I have been trying to help…
The world is addicted to visible conflict. Missiles, borders, retaliation, brinkmanship, the theater of escalation. These are the things that dominate headlines because they are dramatic, legible, and easy to narrate.…
I watched Artemis II with the kind of awe that makes you briefly forget your age. For a few minutes, I was no longer a grownup buried in deadlines, flights,…
“Paper or plastic?” It is one of those phrases we hear so often that it barely registers anymore. It belongs to the script of modern life, along with “credit or debit,”…
It took me longer than it should have to get to the University of Mississippi. Forty-eight states came and went before it. Mississippi stayed somewhere on the list, not avoided, just…