Historians and Political Scientists May Have to Start Weighing In, and Sooner Rather Than Later
BY MARTIN KICH When I first drafted this post about a week ago, I did not realize that the Trump administration’s talking points on the Mueller investigation would so quickly boil down to the follo…
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Post-Millennials and Higher Ed
BY MARTIN KICH Consider the following chart: The article from which this graphic is taken, “Early Benchmarks Show ‘Post-Millennials’ on Track to Be Most Diverse, Best-Educated Generation Yet,” has …
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What Racism and Sexual Harassment (and Worse) Have in Common
BY MARTIN KICH The “what” in this case can refer, of course, to many things—the causes, the effects, and/or the political, cultural, and moral implications of the two issues and the ways in which t…
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State Income Tax Revenues Increase Dramatically
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH State support for public higher education—or, more precisely, the decline in such support—remains a persistent and significant issue. It continues to exacerbate the level of d…
OCAAUP 2018 Annual Meeting Resolution 1: Increased State Funding
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH This resolution was passed unanimously by the chapter leaders and members attending this year’s annual meeting in the Columbus suburb of Westerville. Whereas the state funding…
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Once Lost, Press Freedom Is Reasserted at a Great Personal Cost
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH American journalists are rightly concerned about President Trump’s almost continuous attacks on the press in general and on individual journalists. For although the freedom of…
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Sherrod Brown Supports Wright State Chapter’s Efforts to Secure a Fair Contract
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown has stated that he is considering a run for the Democratic nomination in 2020. He has been widely quoted as asserting that if the Democrats want wi…
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Some Comments on Higher Ed from Congressional Hearings
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH A sub-title for this post might be: Student Debt, DACA, and the Ottoman Defeat at the Gates of Vienna. These items have been culled from Pro Publica’s Capitol Words: Granted, …
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On This Distinctly American Holiday
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH (I’d like to forestall objections by Canadians by noting that Charles and Daniel Krauthammer, whose columns are the topic of this post, seem to interested very little in…
How Do You Spell S-T-U-N-T?
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH This news announcement is from Politico: The Pentagon is set to begin a drawdown of its 5,800 troops from the Southwest border as early as this week, the Army commander overse…
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