Perspectives The American Dream is at a Standstill Spencer Irvine April 20, 2016 Now here’s news you’re not likely to get from many commencement speeches, especially if they are given by Obama Administration…
Faculty Lounge Maryland Universities are Trying to Help Students Create Start-Ups Spencer Irvine April 1, 2016 Why, you’d ask? Because the universities want to help create start-ups that will stay in the area close to the…
Perspectives Did the Feds Mess Up the 2008 Recession? Spencer Irvine March 7, 2016 That was the question on the minds of several economists at a panel discussion held at the Cato Institute recently….
Faculty Lounge Catholic New Hampshire University Offers to Pay for Student Loans if Graduates Don’t Get a Job Spencer Irvine January 28, 2016 From Fox News: A small Catholic university in New Hampshire is offering its undergraduate students a program that will guarantee…
MLA, Perspectives Good News for English Majors, Sort Of Malcolm A. Kline January 26, 2016 When thousands of English professors gathered in Austin, Texas earlier this month for the annual Modern Language Association (MLA) convention,…
Faculty Lounge Econ Professor says 200,000 Jobs have been Lost due to Higher Minimum Wage during Recession Spencer Irvine December 27, 2015 A higher minimum wage does not lead to more job creation, but we knew that: An economics professor at the…
Perspectives Larry Summers Stands Up for Labor Unions Spencer Irvine September 18, 2015 Lawrence Summers, former U.S. Treasury Department Secretary and current Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University, defended the concept…
Faculty Lounge Federal Reserve Study: College Degrees for Minorities No Guarantee of Raising Income Spencer Irvine August 28, 2015 Campus Reform with more on the study: The report released this month by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis…
Guest Articles Krugman and the New York Times Spinning Obama’s Legacy Roger Aronoff August 12, 2015 Editor’s Note: Perhaps Princeton’s most famous economist, Paul Krugman, still in denial. In the view of The New York Times…
Faculty Lounge The Urgent Demand for STEM Graduates may be Overblown Spencer Irvine August 11, 2015 Even the AAUP is doubting whether the emphasis and urgency of graduating STEM degree holders is actually an accurate one.
Perspectives INFOGRAPHIC: Child Poverty in Post-Recession America Spencer Irvine July 30, 2015 What economic recovery?
Perspectives What Economic Recovery? America’s Children Suffer Post-Recession Malcolm A. Kline Three universities contributed to a study that shows that children are faring badly in the Obama years, although they stop…
