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About Herman Miller Herman Miller, Inc., based in Zeeland, Michigan, is a major American manufacturer of office furniture, equipment and home furnishings. It is notable as one of the first companies to produce modern furniture and, under the guidance of Design Director George Nelson, is likely the most prolific and influential producer of furniture of the modernist style. Among classic Herman Miller products are the Equa chair, Aeron chair, Noguchi table, Marshmallow sofa, and the Eames Lounge Chair. Herman Miller is credited with the invention of the office cubicle (originally known as the ...

By Hans Bader | March 11, 2021 | 5:19pm EST Featured is part of Georgetown University's campus. (Photo credit: DANIEL SLIM/AFP via Getty Images) A law professor at Georgetown University has been fired for pointing out that black students got lower grades in her classes. This was not due to racism. Black students get lower grades at selective colleges because they are admitted with lower grades and test scores than their non-black classmates, due to racial preferences in admissions at schools like Georgetown. Recipients of non-racial preferences i...

Georgetown law professor fired for comments on Black students' performance Janhvi Bhojwani © Provided by NBC News Georgetown Law professor Sandra Sellers, who was captured on video discussing the performance of Black students, is no longer affiliated with the university, the law school dean said Thursday. Georgetown University Law students and alumni had called for the professor's firing after a video of two Georgetown Law professors discussing the performance of Black students in their class went viral. A petition by the university's Black Law Student Association demanding ...

The Lightbulb Moment: Cubicles By Lawrence Banton The home office has become a sanctuary for productivity as many people continue to work from the place where they live, but with COVID vaccinations ramping up and industries eyeing a return to normalcy, our once standard view of offices could revert back to a phase that peaked in the 1980s and 90s. We're talking cubicles.  At one point, seeing office spaces with seemingly endless rows of tight-knit working quarters was typical. That is until the open concept came along and transformed working spaces into what many of us know today. The open o...

Section I Section I - Partnership and Project StafF The partnership for this project includes the North Adams Public Schools, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, and Williams College. All three institutions are located within 10 miles of one another in the far northwest corner of Massachusetts.  The populations of Williamstown and North Adams were 7,754 and 13,708 respectively in 2010. We are about an hour away from the nearest metropolitan area (Albany, NY). The North Adams Public Schools serves 1500 students in thre...