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Sloganeering and the Limits of Leadership

BY HARVEY J. GRAFF  In my recent Washington Monthly essay, “The Banality of University Slogans,” I observed that “whether it’s ad campaigns for football season, gauzy reports from the provost, or bombast from the school’s president, higher education abounds with empty rhetoric.” In “Per Aspera ad Astra” Academe Blog contributing editor Hank Reichman shared and…

Per Aspera ad Astra

BY HANK REICHMAN Ohio State University professor emeritus Harvey Graff, who occasionally posts to this blog, has a smart and entertaining piece today in the Washington Monthly on “The Banality of University Slogans.”  You know, the kind of mindless “branding” pablum like, “Here, everything is possible!”  It brought to mind the time when my university,…