UM: Ivory Tower

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on changes in academia over the past decade, with some saying that research universities in particular have become pressure cookers of competition. The article quores Abigail J. Stewart, a UM professor of psychology and women’s studies. “I’m always skeptical of framing the past as a golden age. I think there is a nostalgia and a sentimentality, especially from senior men about the good old days when they played cards at lunch and wandered down the hall to shoot the breeze.” She adds: “I never experienced any of that.” [Source]