🎧 Episode 05 Food Fight | Revisionist History

Listened to Episode 05 Food Fight by Malcolm Gladwell from Revisionist History

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Bowdoin College in Maine and Vassar College in upstate New York are roughly the same size. They compete for the same students. Both have long traditions of academic excellence. But one of those schools is trying hard to close the gap between rich and poor in American society—and paying a high price for its effort. The other is making that problem worse—and reaping rewards as a result.

“Food Fight,” the second of the three-part Revisionist History miniseries on opening up college to poor kids, focuses on a seemingly unlikely target: how the food each school serves in its cafeteria can improve or distort the educational system.

It would be nice to figure out a way to nudge some capitalistic tendencies into this system to help fix it–but what?

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Good morning on a Monday! Thanks to @carolinads13 for posting this pic from the weekend of a banana chocolate chip pancake waffle with the #Bowdoin seal. Yum!

A post shared by Bowdoin College (@bowdoincollege) on May 2, 2016 at 7:26am PDT