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The Diversity Staff at the University of Michigan Is Nearly 100 Full-Time Employees 0
- Education
- May 30, 2018
Year after year, media note and sometimes bemoan the ballooning cost of higher education. There is no doubt that the human costs of this rise are severe: Some 44 million Americans currently carry nearly $1.5 trillion in student loan debt, and the delinquency rate is 11 percent. There are various reasons for surging costs,
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California Parents Pull Their Children, Stage Rally Over Controversial Sex-Ed Curriculum 0
- Education
- May 30, 2018
San Diego parents pulled their kids from school and rallied outside the district’s headquarters Tuesday, expressing anger and frustration over a sex-ed curriculum they allege is completely inappropriate for their young children. The sixth grade curriculum includes lessons on gender identity, birth control, the stages of sex, STDs, HIV, and pregnancy. Parents are calling the material “too much,
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Why the U.S. is Consistently the Most Generous Nation in the World 0
- Culture
- May 29, 2018
Years ago, an MBA student of mine had immigrated from Albania after growing up under Communism. She shared with her classmates what she observed to be the most unexpected mindset difference between Americans and Albanians. She got emotional as she explained how in Albania, charity was rare—caring for anyone other than yourself and your family
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How the Church of Climate Change Resembles a (Deadly) Cult 0
- Science
- May 29, 2018
Climate change can kill. Not just furnace-like summer heat with its killer bushfires, not killer floods sweeping away livestock, houses and motorists, not killer cyclones lifting roofs, toppling trees, and smashing power lines. But also felo de se, self-slaughter, shuffling off this mortal coil. Remember 104-year-old David Goodall, the Australian academic who travelled to Switzerland
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Political Ideology Is Not the Culprit in Skepticism of Science, Research Shows 0
- Education
- May 29, 2018
Today, there is a crisis of trust in science. Many people – including politicians and, yes, even presidents – publicly express doubts about the validity of scientific findings. Meanwhile, scientific institutions and journals express their concerns about the public’s increasing distrust in science. How is it possible that science, the products of which permeate our
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5 Financial Benefits Singles are Missing by Being Single 0
- Culture
- May 29, 2018
For many years, marriage was something to which most young people aspired. Love, marriage, and the baby carriage were just the normal and expected sequence of life. But while many of today’s young people still hope marriage is in their future, the chance of that happening seems to be lower. According to Pew Research, only
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The Diversity Staff at the University of Michigan Is Nearly 100 Full-Time Employees 0