During rough economic times, it’s hard to get at the reasons college make policy changes. According to Jacques Steinberg in today’s New York Times, M.I.T. is considering an increase in the size of its student body. On its face, this is simply a move to return the campus to the size it was back in th ...
A new report has revealed that Australians are starting to cut back on luxury items including dry cleaning, expensive restaurants, designer fashion, cars and quite a few others. Interestingly, charity has been included in this list. We donate to charities we feel passionate about because we can affo ...
Call this part 2 on swine flu Learning from History. Consider the 1918 Influenza Pandemic. That flu is worth considering as a predictive model for the path of 2009 H1N1 for two reasons: (1) Unlike most influenza, its main victims were the young. (2) It caused death through its attack on the lungs. A ...
One of the key political battlegrounds these days is science. There has been much in the news on skirmishes on evolution v. creationism and women's control over their reproductive capacity (including state constitutional amendments that define the moment of conception as the beginning of life), just ...
Yesterday I mentioned that the economic downturn has affected faculty recruitment at many universities, including the University of California system. Thus budget cutbacks are having a negative impact on the educational experience of students. Universities are also cutting sports–or at least slashin ...
3/27/2009 Update: More School Budget documents New school budget documents (click to read 198 page budget) are in ahead of next Tuesday’s public hearing and vote on the spending plan. Donna Antonucci went to the Board of Education to get the numbers, and shares her views on what she sees: “Jack Rasl ...
