On the last day of fourth grade, I leaned against a window as my fellow students buzzed around our classroom, high on sodas and celebration and the delight of having our beloved teacher back: she had been out for more than five months while her husband struggled through the last stages of a fatal illness. He…
As the executive director of the Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley, which recently won the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how universities can be “value added.” What can…