Ned Laff

Jan 21, 2025 | chronicle.com | Scott Carlson |Ned Laff |Arthur Brooks

What do you do with a major in French? Or philosophy, history, or English? This is the question at the heart of all the challenges that now bedevil liberal-arts departments on campuses across the country, a problem once dubbed the “translation chasm.” It’s the gap between what students and their parents think a French degree leads to and what doors it could actually open up in the world.

Oct 24, 2024 | press.jhu.edu | Ned Laff |Scott Carlson |Sara Goldrick-Rab |David V. Rosowsky

How college faculty and staff can help students "hack" their college experience through a proactive, personalized approach to success. College is a complex, high-stakes game, according to authors Ned Scott Laff and Scott Carlson, but students can learn how to win it. Hacking College offers college advisors, faculty, and staff in student and academic affairs a groundbreaking guide to rethinking higher education so that students can succeed in an increasingly complex world.

May 15, 2024 | chronicle.com | Scott Carlson |Ned Laff |Anuj Shrestha

One in a series of articles about how today’s traditional-age college students experience the world — and how it affects their education. Emelin Garcia-Nieto’s journey to medical school started in an unlikely place: a small, remote mountain village in the state of Guerrero, Mexico.