Summer ReStack: Being a Bean Bag

Original Publication: December 11, 2023

Summer Mondays will feature 2023-24 ReStacks. When I published this original post in December of 2023, HigherEd had found itself in the crosshairs of a Republican led Congress. And we failed to pivot. Failed to respond. Failed in so many ways. Rather than move away from being a Bean Bag… we became a Bean Bag that left itself in the driveway and run over by the car.

A bit ago, dear reader, I introduced you to my father. A nearly 82 year old self employed attorney with two side hustles who works 7 days a week. He’s a very busy guy. It is for this reason that he doesn’t have much time to make phone calls and small talk. So, when he did call me this past Friday, I immediately picked up. Dad doesn’t say, “Hello.” Rather, he just rips into the conversation. Like I said, he’s a busy guy. “I have been watching these College Presidents and their testimony in front of Congress.”