From the nest
Inside the institution.
The classroom, faculty life, students, shared governance, academic leadership, professional associations, and the institutional systems experienced by the people who teach and learn there.
Writing · Higher Education
HAWK
A View from the Nest and from Above
Investigations, essays, dispatches, and field notes examining American higher education from inside its institutions and from the broader altitude of policy, power, history, and public life.
From above
See the larger machinery.
Policy, legislatures, governing boards, organizations, networks, funding, history, and patterns of power that become easier to recognize when the level of analysis changes.
HAWK writing
Investigations and essays.
Observe faithfully. Document rigorously. Synthesize honestly. Trust the reader.
HAWK Investigation · 2026
The Network
A four-part investigation tracing how ideas, organizations, legislation, governing authority, and institutional choices move through American public higher education.
Read The Network →HAWK Essay · August 2026
General Education Is Being Rewritten
The civic purpose of college is being displaced by workforce outcomes, institutional metrics, and a narrower account of what education is for.
Read the essay →The method behind the view
H.A.W.K.
HAWK writing grows from the Institute's existing H.A.W.K. method: History, Analysis, Wonder, and Knowledge. The method and the higher-education writing umbrella are related, but distinct.
Explore the H.A.W.K. Method →