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White Paper: Borrowed Ladders: How Social Exposure Expands Cultural Sophistication Beyond Individual Discovery

Posted on December 17, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Individuals rarely acquire their deepest cultural knowledge in isolation. Much of what later becomes central to one’s aesthetic judgment, intellectual breadth, and interpretive sophistication arrives not through deliberate searching but through relational exposure—friends, mentors, family members, classmates, and … Continue reading →

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White Paper: The Competitive Advantage of Multi-Tool Athletes: A Structural Analysis of Positionless Development in Football and Other Team Sports: A Case Study of Bixby High School (Oklahoma) and the Broader Evolution of Athletic Versatility

Posted on December 10, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Elite athletic programs increasingly rely on positionless skill development, producing players who can run, pass, catch, block, tackle, diagnose plays, and shift roles without losing strategic coherence. Among high school programs, Bixby High School in Oklahoma represents a … Continue reading →

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White Paper: How NIL and For-Profit Athletic Ventures Could Turn College Athletes into Employees – And What That Would Mean

Posted on December 10, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary The rapid commercialization of college sports—driven by Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) rights, revenue-sharing settlements, and now private-equity–backed joint ventures—has pushed the NCAA’s “amateurism” model to a breaking point. The University of Utah’s proposed private-equity partnership with Otro … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Examining the Fallout From the 2025 CFB Playoff Bracket

Posted on December 9, 2025 by nathanalbright

Given: ACC champion Duke goes 8–5, wins the league, but is left out of the 12-team playoff. Miami goes 10–2, does not make the ACC title game, but gets an at-large bid. Tulane and James Madison, both Group of 5 … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Social and Physical Consequences of Cutoff Date Effects in the Educational Environment

Posted on December 7, 2025 by nathanalbright

Children born a few days apart can end up a full year apart in school. This white paper looks at what that does to their social and physical outcomes in public schooling—and why the same dynamic is much weaker or … Continue reading →

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Policy Brief: Preventing Accidental Degrees in a New University: Ensuring Credential Integrity, Transparency, and Student Intent

Posted on November 30, 2025 by nathanalbright

Purpose This policy brief provides strategic guidance for a newly established university on how to prevent accidental degree completion—the unintended awarding of certificates or degrees without a student’s explicit awareness or intent. Such occurrences, although sometimes viewed favorably by students, … Continue reading →

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White Paper: The Prevalence and Causes of Accidental Degrees and Unintentional Credential Completion

Posted on November 30, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary “Accidental degrees”—cases where students discover they have earned a degree or certificate without consciously intending or tracking completion—are uncommon but not rare, representing a small yet consistent statistical “noise band” produced by the intersection of modular curricula, transfer-driven … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Improving General Aviation Training to Reduce Unstable Approaches in High-Performance Aircraft

Posted on November 29, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Unstable approaches in high-performance general aviation (GA) aircraft—fast pistons, high-performance singles, turboprops, and light business jets—remain a major precursor to stalls, runway excursions, and other serious incidents. Data from airlines and business aviation show that approach and landing … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for the Organization and Internal Structure of a New University

Posted on November 27, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers unprecedented capabilities for the strategic design, internal organization, and operational management of a new university. Unlike legacy institutions constrained by historical structures, a new university can integrate AI at its foundation—building a flexible, data-rich, … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Organizing University Programs Within Schools — Structures, Principles, and Governance Models

Posted on November 27, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary The internal organization of university programs within schools (e.g., School of Business, School of Education, School of Engineering, School of Theology) plays a decisive role in academic quality, faculty development, student progression, accreditation compliance, strategic planning, and institutional … Continue reading →

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