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Welcome to nancy pratt blogs!

This site is a home for essays on education, leadership, knowing, work, and institutional responsibility. The writing reflects both a deep commitment to higher education and a willingness to confront its purposes, obligations, contradictions, and failures.
The essays published here are not presented as formal research. As a personal essay platform, the blog gives me room to develop ideas more directly and critically than I might in an academic publication, where disciplinary conventions, methodological restraint, and extensive qualification appropriately shape the work. Here, I engage prevailing narratives, question familiar assumptions, and take positions with less hedging. The freedom of this space is not a rejection of rigor, but an opportunity to practice it through a different form of inquiry.
This blog is also intended to be more than a platform for my ideas alone. I welcome thoughtful comments, serious exchange, and conversation with readers who care about education, leadership, work, and institutional life. When something here prompts you to think more deeply, question an assumption, or offer another perspective, I hope you will join the discussion.