The Conversation

If you would have asked me a year ago about the classes I might have predicted that I would be taking spring semester of my freshman year of college, I can certainly assure you that “Higher Education: Past and Future” would not have been one of the first to pop into my mind. However, as […]

Turning a New Page: The Future of Libraries

Libraries have essentially always held a very unique, if not sacred, role in the history and culture of the world itself. Whether this role has been manifested in its physical designation as a concrete place meant to store written knowledge and information or in its almost mythical position as gatekeeper of civilization’s progress and harvested […]

Innovative Disruption: A Point of No Return, or a Vicious Cycle?

Innovative Disruption. Although upon first reflection such a phrase could almost be perceived as an oxymoron, the momentum behind the growing presence of Innovative Disruption in modern culture, and more specifically higher education, is certainly a concrete force to be reckoned with across various spectrums. While innovation typically evokes a more positive connotation and disruption […]

Who’s the Boss?

The nation of the United States of America has always had a special history and connection with the concept of government and authority. As a country literally born from a dissatisfaction with the then current system and propelled forward by a desire to create a brand new, separate system of government that could be uniquely […]

The Science of Adulthood

According to about.chemistry.com, the scientific definition of a buffer is a solution that utilizes chemical properties to keep a solution “stable,” as well as being identified as “resistant to changes” (in pH). Although the concept of a buffer in the realm of modern college may not necessarily be as applicable to the real world outside […]

It Started With Speed Dating

In an age of an ever growing, ever public push for a less divided and more inclusive society across a broad spectrum of categories, particularly here at the University of Oklahoma, I would naturally like to flatter myself that I am the sort of individual who never passes up a chance to combat racism, classism, […]

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