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Check-up or check-in? Photo Credit: Joseph Eid / AFP Before October 17, 2019, most 4- and 5-star hotels in Beirut reported annual average room occupancy rates of 75 to 80 percent before the first coronavirus case in Lebanon was reported on February 21, 2020. This occupancy rate had been the norm since 2009 and most hotels expected that in 2019, they would exceed that rate and set a record year. According to Ernst & Young Middle East hotel benchmark survey, the occupancy rate in Beirut’s 4- and 5-star hotels slipped to an all-time low of 16 percent by November 2020, down from the previous ye...

May 20 is the 7th annual Access Day! Global Accessibility Awareness Day is every third Thursday in May and we’re continuing to celebrate with a full day of programming featuring content that touches on accessibility, self advocacy, and adaptive technology. Tune into 101.9FM or at citr.ca anytime between 9am-6pm PST Check out the 2021 programming below…   ADHD is not just a quirky pandemic trend, Karan Saxena An hour long fill-in discussion about how the pandemic has made people believe that ADHD is just the inability to focus and be distracted, which dramatically increased as a trend on ...

Wednesday, May 12, 2021 On Wednesday, May 5, the History Department, along with the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee, welcomed Dr. Cindy I-Fen Cheng, Ph.D., for her virtual lecture "Anti-Asian Sentiment Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic." Fifty-nine Seton Hall and local community members joined the session on Microsoft Teams. Dr. Anne Giblin Gedacht, Assistant Professor, Department of History and Affiliated Faculty, Asian Studies Program, opened the program by welcoming Dr. Cheng and thanking participants for attending. Dr. Cheng is a Professor of History and the Asian American Studies progr...

A series of events are currently being planned to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the Battle of Blair Mountain later this summer. For several days throughout late August and early September 1921, southern West Virginia was the site of the largest labor uprisings in American history. Nearly 100 people were killed when armed warfare broke out on Blair Mountain in Logan County between thousands of pro-union coal miners and armed forces consisting of deputies sent by Logan County Sheriff Don Chafin, coal companies and the West Virginia State Police. The battle came to an end when federal ...

The dire human rights situation in the Philippines under the Duterte administration calls for stronger international solidarity and support and the establishment of a United Nations-led probe on state-perpetrated rights violations, according to a ...