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Dr. Richard Vedder, Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, was quoted in multiple media outlets and websites. The Employment Policies Institute asks “Does the Minimum Wage Reduce Poverty?,” leading with, “This study by economists Richard Vedder and Lowell Gallaway […]

Dr. Ayesha Hardison is the Fall 2014 Langston Hughes Visiting Professor at the University of Kansas. Hardison is Associate Professor of English at Ohio University, where she teaches courses in African American literature. Her first book, Writing through Jane Crow: Race and Gender Politics in African American Literature (American Literatures […]

The Washington Post quotes Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor and Chair of History, in a pre-election article on “Michelle Obama out in full force for ‘Barack’s last campaign.’” NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Plain-spoken and casual, Michelle Obama took the stage of a high school gymnasium here to rally Democratic voters. “I’m […]

“The new gainful employment rules are out from the U.S. Department of Education and, predictably, nearly everyone is mad,” writes Dr. Richard Vedder, Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, in a Forbes article on “Gainful Employment Targets For-Profits; Not-For-Profits […]

 By Beth Quitslund, Faculty Senate Chair at Ohio University and a member of the Ohio Faculty Council and Dan E. Krane, chair of the Ohio Faculty Council and a Fellow of the American Council on Education This op-ed appeared in the Dayton Daily News. Public colleges and universities were never […]

When geologists wanted to test drilling equipment for an Apollo mission in the 1960s, they used a crater in Tennessee. Fifty years later, those samples are providing Dr. Keith Milam a look back into a ancient time when meteorites pummeled the Earth. “Back when Wisconsin and western Russia once shared […]

Athens Messenger reporter Susan Tebben interviewed Dr. Kim Little, Associate Director of Ohio University’s Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies program. She is a Tennessee native who came to Athens County in 1997. She is proud to say, “I Am Athens County.” What brought you to the area? I came to […]