Ā Organizations are frequently in debt to quiet people.Ā Servants who lead.Ā Jack Graham was such a person and his death last week reminds of our responsibility to remember. There was an era at SIU in which a forceful, visionary,ā¦
Tenure has changed markedly since its inception as an academic concept. It is often confused with the idea of sinecure.Ā Tenure protects a faculty member from a board of trustees or, in public universities, an elected official who might notā¦
My mother worked as a riveter sewing sheet metal to plane wings in a defense plant on Long Island during the big war.Ā Countless others did too.Ā My in-laws worked at Grumman on Long Island for a combined total ofā¦
Any good university is concerned first and foremost, now and always, with academic excellence.Ā That is our purpose. 128 university presidents signed onto The Amethyst Initiative, a recent effort suggesting the drinking age should be lowered to 18. The primaryā¦
