COUNSELOR SPHERES OF INTEREST – Rod Skinner
Reading List - Articles
“The Absurdity of College Admissions: How Did Getting into an Elite School Become a Frenzied, Soul-Deadening Process?”: Alia Wong. The Atlantic. 3/28/16
“Are Public Universities Becoming Bastions of Privilege?”: Stephen Burd. The Hechinger Report. 3/11/15
“The Big Picture”: James Fallows and V.V. Ganeshananthan. The Atlantic Monthly. October, 2004
“The Big Uneasy: What’s Roiling the Liberal-Arts Campus?”: Nathan Heller. The New Yorker. 5/30/16
“Breaking Away”: Dana Spiotta. New York Times. 7/14/07
“The Broccoli of Higher Ed”: Daniel Everett. Inside Higher Ed. 8/30/11
“Capitalizing on Complexity: Insights from the Global Chief Executive Officer Study”: IBM. 2010
“College Admission: Failed Rite of Passage”: Michael Thompson. Independent School Magazine. Winter, 1990
“College Admissions Is Broken. Here’s how to Fix It”: Libby Nelson. Vox. 4/7/15
“College Admissions Shocker! The Future Has Arrived and It’s the Thinnest of Envelopes”: Frank Bruni. New York Times. 3/30/16
“College Essay”: Christopher Buckley. The New Yorker. 11/28/05
“The Commodification of Higher Education: Colleges and Universities Have Become a Marketplace That Treats Student Applicants Like Consumers. Why?”: Alia Wong. The Atlantic. 3/30/2016
“Confessions of an Ivy League Frat Boy: Inside Dartmouth’s Hazing Abuses”: Janet Reitman. Rolling Stone Magazine. 3/28/12
“Dear Eighth Grader: So You Want to Apply to Harvard? Some Words of Advice…”: Andrew Doctoroff. Huffington Post. 2/21/12
“The Disadvantages of an Elite Education: Our Best Universities Have Forgotten That the Reason They Exist Is to Make Minds, Not Careers”: William Deresiewicz. The American Scholar. Summer, 2008
“Early Bird”: Lisa Birnbach. The New Yorker. 5/12/14
“The Emotional Impact of College Admissions Decisions – on Parents”: Linda McGhee. The Washington Post. 3/27/15
“The Empirical Kids”: David Brooks. New York Times. 3/28/13
“The Graduates”: Louis Menand. The New Yorker. 5/21/07
“How and Why You Diversify Colleges: As Schools Wrestle with Unequal Opportunity, Amherst Wins an Important Prize for Its Efforts and Success”: Frank Bruni. New York Times. 5/14/16
“In McLean, a Crusade to Get People to Back Off in the Parenting Arms Race”: Brigid Schulte. Washington Post. 3/23/14
“Just Go Already”: Joe Queenan. New York Times. 1/8/06
“Keeping Parents Off Campus”: Judith R. Shapiro. New York Times. 8/22/02
“The Leadership Thing: What They Don’t Teach in College Can Hurt Us”: Sam Allis. Boston Sunday Globe. 4/23/06
“The Legacy of William Sloane Coffin”: Scotty McLennan. Boston Globe. 4/15/06
“Live and Learn: Why We Have College”: Louis Menand. The New Yorker. 6/6/11
“Only Connect: The Goals of a Liberal Education”: William Cronon. The American Scholar. Autumn, 1998
“The Organization Kid”: David Brooks. The Atlantic Monthly. April, 2001
“Our Crazy College Crossroads”: Frank Bruni. New York Times. 3/31/14
“Overachieving Students Hear a New Message: Lighten Up”: Lori Aratani. Washington Post. 2/6/07
“Pain of College Rejection Reconsidered”: Jay Mathews. Washington Post. 4/16/12
“Sparks Fly. Can imagination be taught? Evidently, because the d.school’s innovation hothouse is changing the way people think”: Mike Antonucci. Stanford Magazine. March/April 2011
“Their Time to Blossom”: Eileen McNamara. Boston Globe. 4/5/04
“To All the Girls I’ve Rejected”: Jennifer Delahunty Britz. New York Times. 3/23/06
“Wellness & Ritual: Restoring Wonder and Proportion in College Admissions”: Rod Skinner. Connections Quarterly. Spring, 2017
“What We Learned in the Circus”: Ruth Samuelson and Robert Samuelson. Newsweek. Fall, 2004
“When Children Turn Into Cats”: Adair Lara. San Francisco Chronicle. 3/28/96
“Where College Admissions Went Wrong”: Alia Wong. The Atlantic. 3/29/16
“Who Gets to Graduate?”: Paul Tough. New York Times Magazine. 5/15/14
“The Wonder Years”: Hugh Gallagher. A college essay featured in Harper’s Magazine. August, 1990
“A Work in Progress: The Teen Brain”: Debra Bradley Ruder. Harvard Magazine. September-October, 2008
“Young, Gifted, and Not Getting Into Harvard”: Michael Winerip. New York Times. 4/29/07
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