
Getting Women Elected is Just the First Step (Gender Watch 2018)

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UMW professor wins Independent Publisher Book Award (The Free Lance-Star)UMW Economics Professor Robert S. Rycroft recently won a 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award for “The American Middle Class: An Economic Encyclopedia of Progress and Poverty.”http://www.fredericksburg.com/entertainment/umw-professor-wins-independent-publisher-book-award/article_aeb2c42b-0551-57d5-b2ef-669168d8c35b.html

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Online Students Don’t Have to Work Solo (Inside Higher Ed)Steve Greenlaw, a professor of economics at the University of Mary Washington, likes to avoid grouping freshmen together because he wants new students to benefit from the wisdom of their older peers.https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2018/04/25/group-projects-online-classes-create-connections-and-challenge

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Student’s death leads to investigation of possible cheating at George Mason (The Washington Post)“It is very typical, at least in the lore, for social organizations to maintain these test banks,” said David Rettinger, president of the International Center for Academic Integrity and associate professor of psychological science at the University of Mary Washington. “Obviously it’s […]

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In her weekly column in The Free Lance-Star, Lynne Richardson writes about what to do when an employee tells you something isn’t his or her job.Read the whole column here: http://www.fredericksburg.com/business/columns/richardson-it-s-not-my-job/article_2be82504-a854-54c6-816d-217418e06a3f.html?utm_source=WhatCountsEmail&utm_medium=Fredericksburg%20Business%20InsiderActive%20Subscribers&utm_campaign=Fredericksburg%20Business%20Insider

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