Faculty in the News

Dr. Richard Vedder, Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, wrote an Aug. 25 article for National Review on “Subsidized Decline: Federal tuition-support programs harm students, colleges, and the economy.” “A political storm is brewing in Washington over the consequences […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, will speak at the National Press Club on Sept. 10. His topic for the NPC Newsmakers program will be: Why are college and university costs escalating so rapidly? He will […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, was quoted in serveral Labor Day stories about the economics of job creation and wages. WorkplaceChoice.org’s Trey Kovacs, in a story on “How to Raise All Worker Wages,” cites Vedder’s […]

Dr. Kenneth Hicks, Ohio University Professor of Physics, recently traveled to the University of Padua in Italy, where Galileo Galilei taught almost 400 years ago. Hicks writes about seeing the hall where Galileo lectured in his Aug. 3 column “Italian trip reminds of Galileo’s many discoveries” in the Columbus Dispatch. […]

Los Angeles Review of Books posted two reviews of Eric LeMay‘s In Praise of Nothing: Essays, Memoir, and Experiments (Emergency Press, 2014). LeMay, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing: Nonfiction in the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University, published, In Praise of Nothing: Essays, Memoir, and Experiments. Micah McCrary […]

Newsmax quoted Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor of History at Ohio University, in a story on “Obama Sets Up ‘Mean’ Congress as Midterm Election Strategy.” Katherine Jellison, a professor of history at Ohio University, said the strategy of running against a “do-nothing” Congress has also been successful for past presidents, according […]

A Bloomberg article on “Record Student-Loan Debt Prompts Treasury Push to Stem Defaults” on July 24 quoted Dr. Richard Vedder, Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University. The U.S. Treasury, which finances more than 90 percent of new student loans, […]