Post Tagged with: "faculty in the news"

“Even as the ‘financial burden’ of most goods and services has decreased over time, the price tag of a college tuition just keeps on growing, (but) there’s a way to fix the ever-rising cost of higher education. It’ll take overhauling the student-loan system,” writes The College Fix, while excerpting parts […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor of Economics Emeritus at Ohio University and Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, penned a column headlined “B.Y.O.B.” in Forbes. The heading on this blog is a bit deceptive: this is not about campus drinking. It is about B (Berkeley), Y (Yale), O […]

An Associated Press story story headlined “A family thing: Don’t mess with political dads and daughters” quoted Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor and Chair of History at Ohio University. Before Twitter was available, President Harry Truman backed his daughter the old-fashioned way. Truman sent an angry letter to a Washington Post […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor of Economics Emeritus at Ohio University and Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, penned a column headlined “Universities Are A Neutral Marketplace Of Ideas” Feb. 2 in Forbes. The riots at the University of California at Berkeley protesting the speech that the Campus […]

The Associated Press quoted Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor and Chair of History at Ohio University, in a story headlined “Ivanka Trump Plays Big Role Even Without White House Title.” Ivanka Trump has tried to end speculation that she will serve as a fill-in first lady, which has only been heightened […]

A story widely distributed by the French news service AFP quotes Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor and Chair of History at Ohio University, in a story headlined “Melania Trump, America’s low-profile first lady.” Never in modern times — when Americans are accustomed to having visible and active first ladies — has a […]

WXXI News interviewed Dr. Assan Sarr, Assistant Professor of History at Ohio University, for a Jan. 25 Connections segment on “Understanding the crisis in The Gambia.” WXXI is a National Public Radio (NPR) member station in Rochester, NY. “After weeks of crisis in The Gambia, is the small African nation […]