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Cultural Critic and Award-Winning Writer Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom to Speak at Bridgewater College

Cultural Critic and Award-Winning Writer Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom to Speak at Bridgewater College

March 19, 2023

Renowned cultural critic, sociologist and award-winning author Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom will present an endowed lecture at Bridgewater College on Tuesday, March 21, at 7:30 p.m. in Cole Hall on the College’s campus. Cottom’s address, “The Crisis of Faith in Higher Education,” is free and open to the public. In her 2018 book Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy and in subsequent essays, Cottom examines the impact of higher…

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540-828-5720

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