Here At MFU

Here at Margaret Farmer University, we’ve an academic tradition going back fifty years, to our days as an agricultural college. Founded by the Farmer family, we are named after our first president, whose brother was the college’s first Chief Fiscal Officer. The older generation of the Farmer family, known affectionately as “Ma” and “Pa,” set…

AAUP Chapter at Miami University Hosts Presentation by Howard Bunsis

In the late afternoon on Thursday, September 24, between 80 and 100 faculty and students at Miami University attended a presentation by CBC Chair Howard Bunsis on the university’s finances. The event was hosted by the relatively new but quickly growing AAUP advocacy chapter at the university. The presentation received fairly detailed coverage in the…

Four Things to Know about the Debate over Guns

  1. Who Is Getting Killed with Guns and Why   2. The Dramatic Increase in Gun Sales in the U.S. 3. Where the NRA Now Generates More than Half of Its Revenue Here, according to Walter Hickey in an article published in Business Insider, is a breakdown of where the NRA generates its revenue: “In…

U.S. Higher Education News for September 28, 2015

The Christian Science Monitor includes a commentary on how universities and colleges are trying to measure the development of their graduates critical-thinking skills. It turns out that Mitch Daniels was concerned that Purdue University could not demonstrate that its graduates had acquired significantly improved critical-thinking skills. So he convinced the Association of American Colleges &…