Inspired by Harry’s Op-Ed and the recent “It Takes a B.A. to Find a Job as a File Clerk”:

This article – “Our Universities: Why Are They Failing?” – appears in a publication, The New York Review of Books, that we’re not reading, but I was struck by how closely it resembles our ongoing conversation on “what is the purpose of college?” With your permission, and then with your help, I’d like to find a way to integrate this concept of “cultural scripts of college life” in your portfolios: do you have a cultural script of college life in your head? What does it look like? How does it affect your approach to your work generally, and to reading the New York Times in particular?