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Most professors firmly believe it is their role  to convey the construct of their disciplines to students.

A college president’s job is made even harder today by a politically divided country that often sees a college campus as the breeding ground for unpopular thinking and actions.

There are simply too few people willing or able to work at a time when there are many job openings.

Will $1.75 trillion really enhance the well-being of Americans and, if so, what are the trade-offs?

Possible Perils Of Too Much Stimulus Naples Daily News (FL) By Michael A. MacDowell If you are confused about the status of the economic recovery from COVID-19, you are not alone. Whether it be long economic tomes about job growth, detailed data on the stimulus multiplier or politically inspired verbiage representing conflicting points of view, the amount of information on the economy is enough to confuse even the most careful reader. There are reasons for this. It is still early in the "recove...

Forgiving student loans wouldn’t boost the economy | Opinion Updated Dec 13, 2020; By Michael A. MacDowell The call for forgiving student debt was heard often during the last presidential campaign. Both Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren called for partial or total forgiveness of the $1.6 billion in student loans. About 8% of those loans are carried by students’ parents. Now that the election is over, Sen. Chuck Schumer is pressing President-elect Joe Biden to move aggressively on a...