Imagine what a university could be it the institution learned the lessons of the pandemic, if it worked to accommodate different learning styles, if it reduced competition, if it listened to students, if it prioritized mental health and faculty opportunities … if it was truly aligned with community betterment, with the embodiment of new thinking, and with building a better world. In a series of short chapters, suggestions and imaginings, Hawkings and Kern craft a workflow for difference. I admire so much of this book for imagining post-secondary education not in some science-fiction future but in the we can do this now present. Prescient, vital, and a must-read.
(Between the Lines, 2024)