Determine Your Own Yardsticks

Princeton Professor Carolyn Rouse espouses the strength of independent self-determination with due regard to others. By analogy, she carefully illustrates this notion through the concept of professional measurement or growth. She anchors this discussion in experienced racism, rejecting the notion of superiority and inferiority. Professor Rouse refuses to measure herself against arbitrary yardsticks created by others. She speaks to creating her own measurement of success across myriad social and professional endeavors. A fresh perspective and thought-provoking message, Professor Rouse aptly reminds us “to be a good person to others and to self.”