From Ideas to Excellence
“The most striking thing about the American university in its formative period is the diversity of mind shown by the men who spurred its development. Those who participated in the academic life...displayed sharply dissonant attitudes. Their outlook offered no smooth consensus.” – Laurence Veysey, The Emergence of the American University The …
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"In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education. Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right that must be made available on equal terms." - Chief Justice Earl Warren, Brown v. Board of Education (1954) Remember when you …
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Here the widening Land gathered, jumbled, at its life's edge Swelling its softening summerscapes. Dry billowing winds Traipsed joyfully along a distant sinking horizon line in the West. Now seen from the bullying cloud-crowded sky, a tiny Trawling river traces its way, burrowing into and through its Red raw striated canyons, now riven, side …
Our books gathered us, called us each, Their curled joy-worn pages dancing With flickering orange yellow light at the Communal fire. "We are here." They knit Woolen tales of men, of women, of fierce Eternal battles, gods, the triumph of Old words, spells and incantations to salve Souls broken into these dangling dense Narratives. There on …
The maudlin curtained enclosed silence held Fast. There, across a gulf grown wide and Deep as a Gaelic moated shattered castle Rose great choking indifferent trunk-wide Weeds, fed forever by a drying thoughtcreek. Silken tiny shellshards, crushed mercilessly Underfoot - giant cracking deadened blows - Littered its expanse. Nothing …
The Beginning “We began with small groups, a soft roll-out and a few course reviews,” recalled Joan Mikalson, Associate Provost for Student and Faculty Services, Excelsior College, when asked how Excelsior implemented Quality Matters. “We ensured a clear division of roles among participating faculty and, as QM spread, offered resources, …
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At the end we broke everything. Or it was already broken at the beginning. In the bedroom clothes were waiting in the hamper for the wash. My bras and panties and your boxers and undershirts, my jeans and tees, your shorts and sweat socks. The room was divided and the sides didn't meet except when you left your things all over. "You want some …
An element of shade is its Color the silent cool of a Lengthening lightless all. An element of shade is its No-smell and no-form, Except, perhaps, in the old Breezes beneath formed Mammoth cracked trunks, Ancient from before a stolid, Lumbering s/he emerged From all imagination, built Of stars, sallying suns, dark Light from …
Remember when joy leaped across Sated skin after these weakened souls Discovered the other? You steered the Unanchored sails of a wrecked ship, on Tempest-turned seas, you were the Winded, worn love-house rising from a Blissful verdant shore. Angered waves, Pregnant with the power of a million million Silent suns, tumbled our …
She... ...gathered herself into the everything since before there was a thing to call time, shafts of blue-red light, carrying the motes on which my auburn love floats. She... ...was the ancient kiln built in a browned, weathered heart-home into which I fed the dreamstuff from which lives grow, the firstfallen fruits of Fate's first …
