What is college for, in our diverse, unequal democracy? How have people worked and fought for college opportunities in the U.S. — and what do we mean by “opportunity,” anyway? What stories about college circulate through society? How do we make sense of them, while telling our own? In order to consider matters of immense public importance, we will work to become a community of practice — a group that "shares a concern or a passion for something they do and learns how to do it better as they interact regularly."

Course themes include: Narrative Capability: Your Story in Context; The Presence of the Past: The Opportunity Archive; Getting In: How it Works in Five College Types; Campus as Place: College Lands, Landscapes, and Buildings; A Copernican Moment: Aligning Society and Systems in Higher Ed; After College, What?: Purposeful Work.