Prose and Purpose

My wife and I gave our daughter a choice for her sixteenth birthday. If she wanted, she could have a party or we could go on a family cruise.

The latest NACUBO survey of tuition discounting is more bad news, but not surprising news, for private higher education.

As the president of my local school board I have the pleasure of making remarks at the high school graduation.

The tenure system needs to change — not in any fundamental way but rather to be closer to what tenure used to mean and represent.

At the time that I stood for tenure, I was the only untenured person in the economics department.

I am a car person. I read car magazines for relaxation, I go to automobile shows, and of course I appreciate the economic impact of the automobile industry.

Sitting next to me at a middle school concert was a person I did not know. But continuously during the concert she kept looking at her smart phone, kept reading messages and kept texting.

Every time we do a search, we review our parameters and at this point in time, we know what we want in terms of a search process and what works well.