Fathers and Sons

My father was an absent man and perhaps that is why his presence appears more often now, once I have opened my memory bank.  When my brother and I were growing up, he was gone most of the time, traveling and making a living for his family.  But before his travels grew to Gulliver proportions…

In Defense of the Term “Professor”

Dr. Brian C. Mitchell is the retired president of Bucknell University and former president of Washington & Jefferson College. He is the president of Brian Mitchell Associates and director of the Edvance Foundation. He can be reached at: bmitchell@edvancefoundation.org A great number of us within the higher ed community are watching with interest the developments in…