Since April 2004, we have been debating undergraduate
education at Rutgers–
New Brunswick, sometimes
even shouting about it. At that time, President Richard L. McCormick
and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Philip Furmanski
convened the Task Force on Undergraduate
Education to ensure that “undergraduate education
is, and will be, a priority of discussion every year at Rutgers, not
just when a committee has produced
a report.”
While having an espresso
the other day, I was struck by the word. Espresso comes from the same
Latin root that gives us “expression.” The coffee is denser and more
intense because hot water is forced at high pressure through
finely-ground beans. Like expression, espresso is literally pressed
out, generated
under pressure.
The summer after I completed sixth grade, I traveled overseas for the first time. I went with my sister, my mother, her band of teachers, and some sixty undergraduates on their way to six weeks of intensive language training in Tours.
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