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Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, authored a column in Forbes headlined “Are University Presidents Paid Too Little or Too Much?” Higher education recently has been confronted with falling enrollments, increasing financial uncertainty (as evidenced by credit downgrades by Moody’s and Fitch) and falling public support. […]

Four Ohio University faculty are among the Ohio Magazine’s  “2018 Excellence in Education Honorees.” Kelly S. Johnson, Ph.D. Biological Sciences Ohio University Sami Kahn, Ph.D. Teacher Education Ohio University Stephen Scanlan, Ph.D. Sociology & Anthropology Ohio University Frank M. LoSchiavo, Ph.D. Psychology Ohio University Zanesville

Dr. Kelly Sundberg, Ohio University alum and Visiting Assistant Professor of English, was profiled in an Idaho Post Register article headlined “Former Salmon woman’s memoir about surviving domestic abuse receives critical acclaim.” Sundberg, who earned a Ph.D. in English from the College of Arts & Sciences in 2018. Kelly Sundberg […]

Ohio University alum Maria Romasco Moore’s new book, Ghostographs: An Album (Rose Metal Press), received enthusiastic accolades. New York Times book reviewer Amal El-Mohtar praises the book’s originality and hybridity, noting in particular the multimodal combination of text and images. “Each story takes up a single page opposite an image, and […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, authored a column in Forbes headlined “The Academic Leisure Class: The Underutilization Of College Resources.” Nearly 120 years ago the eccentric sociologist/economist Thorstein Veblen wrote his Theory of the Leisure Class.  A strong case can be made that today, higher education […]

Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, was quoted in a story in the Texas Monitor headlined “Small private colleges are shrinking and struggling.” Some university finance experts say those cutbacks are indicators of problems endangering small colleges around the country. “You can argue that there has […]

Editor’s Note: The Happy Beginnings series features recent College of Arts & Sciences graduates who are getting started in careers, graduate school, and service. Ohio University alum Chris Arbino ’17 joined WNWO NBC 24 in Toledo as a meteorologist in November. Arbino earned a B.S. in Geography – Meteorology from […]