POSTED BY MARTIN KICH On December 13, Quartz reported: “The 17 people who US president-elect Donald Trump has selected for his cabinet or for posts with cabinet rank have well over $9.5 billion in combined wealth, with several positions still unfilled. This collection of wealth is greater than that of the 43 million least wealthy American households combined—over…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH In a recent item on its website, University Business reports the following from its annual survey of “campus technology leaders”: Statements Tech Leaders Say Will Apply to 2017 75% anticipate greater enrollment in online courses 60% predict they will expand their online education program options 49% predict they will expand their online learning infrastructure 32% predict additional resources will be devoted to online…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH What follows are excerpts from an article on the recent Teamsters election, written by Alexandra Bradbury for Labor Notes: For the first time in nearly two decades, reformers have won seats on the Teamsters’ international executive board—and come within a hair’s breadth of unseating the incumbent administration led by President James…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH This short item on the popular vote in the 2016 presidential election was written by Alex Lockie for Business Insider: A survey conducted by the research company Qualtrics showed that 52% of Republican voters think that Donald Trump won the popular vote in November’s general election, despite nationwide totals giving Hillary Clinton almost a…
BY MARTIN KICH Thoracic surgeon Henry Heimlich died on Saturday, December 17, at age 96. In 1962, Heimlich “developed the Heimlich Chest Drain Valve which was credited with saving many soldiers’ lives in the Vietnam War and is still used for patients undergoing chest surgery.” But most people would not be able to tell you…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Continental Europe In 2015, as the influx of refugees into Europe began to reach crisis proportions, Markus Kressler and Juan David Mendieta co-founded Kiron University, an institution exclusively available to refugees. The two major issues for the university’s potential students were access and funding. The issue of access was addressed by…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The following statement has been released by the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), which is affiliated with the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE): Language is powerful. It empowers individuals to explore and change themselves and their worlds. A belief in this power of language and the abilities…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH What follows is a news release from the Department of Education. Given how long it took the Department of Education to crack down on abuses at for-profit institutions, one wonders how much of that oversight will be reversed or simply ignored by the Trump administration. One would think that allowing a…