Category Archives: Graduate School

The Corner That Nobody Planned: Four Corners, Florida as a Case in Multi-Jurisdictional Peripherality

Posted on August 26, 2026 by nathanalbright

I. A Place Without Fixed Boundaries Any analysis of Four Corners has to begin by conceding that the object of study will not hold still. The Census Bureau recognizes it as a CDP of < cite index=”94-1″>50.96 square miles, population … Continue reading →

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Higher Education and the Imagined Golden Age

Posted on July 10, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract. The reform series already presumes that universities misremember what they are for. This paper supplies the memory theory behind that presumption. The idealized past of the American university—a golden age of liberal learning, disinterested, unified, and later betrayed—is set … Continue reading →

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White Paper 3: Academic Rigor and Quality Assurance at Scale

Posted on May 30, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract If White Paper 2 showed that the University of the People (UoPeople) lowers cost by deleting the conventional university’s most expensive components, this paper asks the question that deletion immediately provokes: does the education that remains hold its quality? … Continue reading →

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White Paper 2: The Economics of Tuition-Free

Posted on May 30, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract The University of the People advertises itself as tuition-free, and the phrase is both accurate and incomplete. It is accurate because the institution charges nothing for instruction, course materials, or enrollment; it is incomplete because students still pay per-course … Continue reading →

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White Paper 1: The Crisis Diagnosis and the Logic of the University of the People Response

Posted on May 30, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract The phrase “the crisis of higher education” names a mood more reliably than it names a problem. Beneath the single label sit at least seven distinct failures—cost and debt, access and equity, value skepticism, demographic enrollment decline, credential inflation, … Continue reading →

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Before We Build: A Prolegomenon on the Crisis in Higher Education

Posted on May 30, 2026 by nathanalbright

Preface Three volumes are planned to follow this one, and the plan is worth stating at the outset because it explains the shape of what you are about to read. The first of them is to ask what a single … Continue reading →

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White Paper 19: Secularized Priesthoods in Modern Ideologies: Academia, Technocracy, and Activist Classes

Posted on May 23, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This paper continues the fourth cluster’s comparative examination of how the Teflon pattern operates across institutional contexts, extending the analysis from explicitly religious traditions to the secularized priesthoods that have emerged within modern ideological frameworks. The argument proceeds through … Continue reading →

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Academic Infrastructure: Programs, Journals, Conferences, and Curricula for Neglect Studies

Posted on May 12, 2026 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary This paper addresses the academic infrastructure required to sustain neglect studies as a field: the institutional homes within universities, the publication outlets through which findings circulate and accumulate, the conferences at which scholars meet, and the curricula through … Continue reading →

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Methods: How to Study What Is Not Being Studied

Posted on May 12, 2026 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary This paper addresses the central methodological challenge of neglect studies: how to make rigorous, defensible claims about scholarly attention that is missing rather than present. The challenge is genuine. Claims of neglect are easy to make, and the … Continue reading →

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Defining the Field: Scope, Taxonomy, and Antecedents of Neglect Studies

Posted on May 12, 2026 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary This paper develops the conceptual foundation for neglect studies as a distinct field of inquiry. It addresses three tasks. First, it establishes the scope of the field by specifying what counts as an instance of scholarly neglect and … Continue reading →

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