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March 21, 2020
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March 4, 2020
Arcane Cage | Goodreads Giveaway | February 2020
Thanks to everyone who signed up to win one of twelve paperback copies of our book, Arcane Cage, on Goodreads.com! Congratulations to the winners. The books will be in the mail next week.
For those who were interested but did not win one of the paperback copies, watch for a Kindle promotion in the near future!
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February 28, 2020
Higher Education News | Week Ending February 28, 2020
Honors of Inequality: How Colleges Work for Some (Kindle Edition) | Click Image to Visit Amazon.com | International |Managing risk to HE institutions in an uncertain world | A university-wide approach to risk management requires the establishment of a risk committee (or assigning management responsibility to an existing committee) that implements institutional risk policies, monitors risks and controls the effectiveness of countermeasures.
February 21, 2020
Higher Education News | Week Ending February 21, 2020
Honors of Inequality: How Colleges Work for Some (Kindle Edition) | Click Image to Visit Amazon.com | International |The scramble for Africa’s growing student population | A World Bank report lists several African economies as growing at a rate of 5% over the past decade and predicts that some African countries can expect even greater economic growth in the upcoming years. The middle class in Africa as a whole has tripled over the past 14 years, representing a...
February 19, 2020
Honors of Inequality | An Afterword for Readers
Honors of Inequality: How Colleges Work for Some is a historical narrative with the plot structure of a Tragedy. In the final analysis, it tells a history about the origins of the college student loan debt crisis that currently threatens higher education in the United States of America. Obviously, I count myself squarely in the camp that perceives the accumulation of college student loan debt in America as a crisis that is unsustainable in the long term for our system of higher education....
February 14, 2020
Honors of Inequality | Chapter 1 | Free Read
“[T]he university is, in usage, precedent, and commonsense preconception, an establishment for the conservation and advancement of higher learning, devoted to a disinterested pursuit of knowledge. As such, it consists of a body of scholars and scientists, each and several of whom necessarily goes to his work on his own initiative and pursues it in his own way. This work necessarily follows an orderly sequence and procedure, and so takes on a...
February 6, 2020
A Modest Proposal (Fourth Anniversary)
After the Great Recession, Moody’s Investors Service began releasing dour public outlooks regarding the financial health of colleges and universities, an annual tradition it continues. Several years ago, Forbes got into the action and graded the financial well-being of private nonprofit institutions. Unlike Moody’s Investors Service, Forbes was forward-looking enough to publish a second list about a...
February 5, 2020
Higher Education News | Week Ending January 31, 2020
Honors of Inequality: How Colleges Work for Some (Kindle Edition) | Click Image to Visit Amazon.com | International |Universities should lead the fight to preserve humanity | Global higher education, which comprises around 19,400 institutions, according to the World Higher Education Database, is responding to climate change through initiatives for ‘sustainability’ or ‘resilience’…[G]enerally, it is safe to say that global higher education does not see itself as a...
January 24, 2020
The Honors of Inequality: Why Colleges Work for Some and Not for Others
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Chicago, Illinois | January 24, 2020 | Higher education—as an organized discipline or field of study—is a relatively recent invention in the history of colleges and universities. Historians place the origins of the modern university to the medieval era in Europe about 1,000 years ago. The professional...
Higher Education News | Week Ending January 24, 2020
Honors of Inequality: How Colleges Work for Some (Kindle Edition) | Click Image to Visit Amazon.com | International |An Intelligent Argument on Race? | The journal Philosophical Psychology is taking flak for publishing an article in defense of race-based science on intelligence. The publication’s editors anticipated blowback, writing an accompanying note as to why they approved the piece by Nathan Cofnas, a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at the University of Oxford....
