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Why is one campus no longer enough? In this week’s A Slice with ’Dice, I explore why leading universities are expanding into new cities and what they gain when geography becomes a strategy for growth.
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College admissions isn’t a national leaderboard.
Before teams evaluate a student, they first have to understand the school behind the transcript: the courses offered, the grading system, and the opportunities actually available in context.
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Too rich for financial aid. Not rich enough for an $80,000-a-year college bill.
Welcome to the messy middle of paying for college.
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What is an undergraduate minor actually for?
I look at the value of structured study beyond the major and whether our growing focus on workforce preparation is narrowing the college experience too much.
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It’s not easy for most schools to fund their football and men’s basketball programs at levels that will have them both competing for championships.
This piece drives that point home, via a great look at Arkansas athletics’ finances.
Arkansas made a considered, defensible bet on a basketball program with exceptional local demand. When FY2026 filings arrive, the key figure will be how it splits revenue-share payments between the two sports.
Full analysis: nilnomics.com/p/something-is…
66% of K–12 parents are satisfied with their child’s education, but only 32% of Americans are satisfied with education nationally.
Why do families trust the schools we can see yet distrust the system beyond them?
alderdice.substack.com/p/i-l…
A month into school, how is your gifted student really doing? This weekend’s encore episode offers ways to start a conversation about friendships, pressure, and belonging—and make room to listen.
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The National Merit list is worth celebrating—but we should be careful about treating it as a map of where talent lives.
This week’s episode looks at access, preparation, family knowledge, and why talent is more distributed than opportunity is.
alderdice.substack.com/p/wha…
Today’s episode completes the Seeing the Whole School series.
In this capstone, I introduce the Proximity and Purpose Continuum for Schools—a framework for understanding how student, program, institution, and stakeholder work connects to shared purpose.
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Maybe we should be less precious about literature and more interested in helping people fall in love with stories.
This week: “Guy-Fi Lit,” Dungeon Crawler Carl, and the appeal of earnestness concealed beneath irreverence.
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The fourth episode in the series focuses on executive translation: the habit of carrying student experience into strategic conversation and carrying institutional purpose back into daily practice.
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A new semester brings new classes, teachers, expectations and plenty of room for doubt to seep in.
In this week’s episode, I revisit some unusual advice: beware of vampires, and don’t mistake uncertainty for inability.
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The work that sustains a school is not always the work people see first.
Sometimes the relationships, resources, trust, and stewardship that make student opportunity possible are built long before they become visible.
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Over the past week, I’ve read plenty of perspectives (and hot takes) about Michigan’s decision to cover grades for first-semester freshmen.
Let's move beyond the familiar debate over whether students are being protected from the “real world.”
alderdice.substack.com/p/tim…
Academic readiness is only part of college readiness. Students are also learning to manage their time, seek help, interpret faculty expectations, build relationships, and care for themselves in an unfamiliar environment.
The student experience is shaped by much more than what happens directly in front of students.
Episode 2 looks at the often less visible systems, structures, and relationships that make care, learning, and opportunity possible.
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A legal service specifically for college students that covers conduct hearings, academic integrity disputes, Title IX proceedings, and more.
The fact that this product exists may tell us something important about the current state of higher education.
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Seeing the whole school starts with admitting we usually see only the part closest to us.
In Episode 1 of this new series, I explore why schools are sustained by work many of us rarely see (but all of us depend on).
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What if the real question isn't who gets into Stuyvesant, but what kinds of specialized schools we should be building next?
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