The College Enrollment Drop Explored
The number of undergraduates attending U.S. colleges and universities remains down by over a million since the onset of the pandemic. Many small colleges,...
Visit from Andrei Kirilenko
Last spring, Andrei Kirilenko, a professor of finance at the University of Cambridge in the UK, visited my U.S. History class via Zoom. Professor...
Applying to U.S. Colleges and Universities: How competitive is it really?
Thirty years ago, with the exception of a couple of highly specialized schools, virtually no institutions admitted less than 10% of their applicants. Now...
College Costs Are Out of Control
“College Costs Are Out of Control!” and other similar headlines are a constant in the media coverage of higher education. The most expensive private...
George Kennan’s “Long Telegram”
My U.S. History class just read George Kennan’s “Long Telegram,” and we were all struck by the currency of Kennan’s observations. In those early days of the Cold War, Ken...
Lower School Science 2021
It’s never too early to start learning about environmental stewardship and our connection to the Earth. Friends’ Central’s Lower School science sets out to...
Recess Therapy with Julian Shapiro-Barnum ’17
Just graduated from college, Julian Shapiro-Barnum ’17 has his own online show, Recess Therapy, which was recently featured in The New York Times and...
New Interim Head of School Beth D. Johnson ’77
Beth D. Johnson ’77 will be stepping into the role of Interim Head of Friends’ Central School beginning July 2021. Craig N. Sellers completes his nine-year tenure as Head...
Bucolic College Towns in the Era of COVID-19
Since the beginning of the 21st century, college-bound high schoolers have increasingly favored larger urban universities. Perhaps the COVID-19 pandemic will moderate tha...
FCS Hosts Distinguished Campus Visitors – Virtually
At FCS, we pride ourselves on the number of prominent scholars, authors, scientists, and artists – many of them alumni/ae – who visit campus...
FCS Students Discover Unknown Moth Species
Students in my Advanced Biodiversity studies course this spring did some really great experimental work with specimens ...
Introducing Plan 175
Friends' Central launches a new strategic plan...
Bringing the Quaker Process to the Jury Room
The secular notion that each juror has something valuable to contribute is similar to the Quaker idea that ‘there is that of God in everyone’....