The Free Lance-Star recently featured a story about Sabrina Johnson, the university’s first vice president for equity and access and chief diversity officer.

“Sabrina Johnson’s boss, University of Mary Washington President Troy Paino, says she has a hard job ahead of her,” the article begins.

Read the rest here:

http://www.fredericksburg.com/news/education/university-of-mary-washington-appoints-new-vice-president-for-diversity/article_0b58a04d-547c-5f4d-8ac8-fd74981278a1.html

A recent article in The New York Times featured a study by Holly Schiffrin, Miriam Liss, and Mindy Erchull and alumnae Haley Miles, Katherine Geary and Taryn Tashner.

The story, What Parents Can Learn From a Town That Produced 11 Olympians, by Karen Crouse, had this to say:

“[The parents] intuitively sense what a 2013 study in the Journal of Child and Family Studies concluded: that overprotective or helicopter parents thwart a child’s basic psychological need for autonomy and competence, resulting in an uptick in depression and lower life-satisfaction levels.”

Crouse wrote Norwich: One Tiny Vermont Town’s Secret to Happiness and Excellence.

Lynne Richardson’s latest column, Social Media and Emails, recently appeared in The Free Lance-Star.

“Far too often,” she writes, “it seems we hear stories where people ultimately lose their jobs because of information they put in emails or some form of social media.”

Read more here:

http://www.fredericksburg.com/business/columns/richardson-social-media-and-emails/article_879d6e10-0def-50ab-861a-5d8ed172be88.html?utm_source=WhatCountsEmail&utm_medium=Fredericksburg%20Business%20InsiderActive%20Subscribers&utm_campaign=Fredericksburg%20Business%20Insider