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POSTED BY MARTIN KICH About a week ago, Nicole Williams contributed a short article to the CNN website with the title “He Just Graduated from College and Wants to Be an Astrophysicist. Oh, and He’s 11.” William Maillis (photo below) has received his Associate in Arts degree from St. Petersburg College in Florida. He’s planning…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH There has been a lot of hand-wringing about the lack of both unified and resonant messaging by candidates on the Progressive side of the ideological spectrum. I personally think that the lack of resonant messaging is much more important, especially in these off-year elections. But here are three examples of very…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH CNN’s David Gelles has surveyed the number of times that President Trump has refereed to the Mueller investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election as a “witch hunt”: 2017-05: 3 times 2017-06: 5 times 2017-07: 6 times 2017-10: 1 time 2017-12: 2 times 2018-01: 1 time 2018-02: 3 times 2018-03:…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH My previous post included information on a species of shark named after Eugenie Clark. By happy coincidence, our chapter’s ongoing effort to illustrate how faculty make a difference in their students’ lives, in their communities, and in their disciplines now includes this item: Tom Rooney is a professor of biology at…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH In the Washington Post’s “Speaking of Science” newsletter, an unidentified author, writing in the first-person, provides the following take on “Shark Week,” along with a somewhat detailed commemorative overview of the career of Eugenie Clark, who broke gender barriers in becoming an expert on sharks, and then a few recollections of…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH This update is from Ralph Wilson: The Charles Koch Foundation changed their donor habits as a result of the pressure we’ve applied while exposing their strategy for undue donor influence. The Wall Street Journal just published an article “Charles Koch Foundation to Publish Future University Grant Agreements” wherein it was announced…
BY JOHN K. WILSON In a speech yesterday at a Turning Point USA conference, Attorney General Jeff Sessions declared: “We are reaching a pivotal and historic moment. After more than two centuries of defending the right to speak freely, a cadre—mostly on the hard left—has openly and systematically justified action to deny Americans the right…
BY BRIAN C. MITCHELL Inside Higher Education (IHE) released its 2018 Survey of College and University Business Officers last week. While the findings vary across the different sectors of American higher education, many are sobering, especially for four-year private colleges. Many Small, Private Colleges’ Financial State is Perilous According to the IHE survey, conducted in…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH In an article for Forbes, Tom Lindsay reports on the scope of the student debt problem as a preface to discussing H.R. 4508, legislation introduced by Virginia Foxx (R-NC) to “reform” higher education ostensibly to make it more affordable. Titled the “Promoting Real Opportunity, Success, and Prosperity through Education Reform Act,”…