Professor of Economics Professor Robert Rycroft recently had a book published: The Economics of Inequality, Discrimination, Poverty and Mobility, 2nd Edition, Routledge.

Read more about the book here:

ttps://www.routledge.com/The-Economics-of-Inequality-Discrimination-Poverty-and-Mobility/Rycroft/p/book/9781138194403

 

 

Professor of Economics

 

Lee Skallerup Bessette recently published a blog post on The Chronicle of Higher Education’s website.

You can find it here:

https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/author/lbessette

 

 

Political science professor Emile Lester was recently featured in an article in The Dallas Examiner: Ideology tops facts in Texas history curriculum, experts say.

“The quibble over wording here could not be more misleading,” said Emile Lester, a report co-author and political science professor at the University of Mary Washington in Virginia.

Read more here:

http://dallasexaminer.com/news/2018/mar/05/ideology-tops-facts-texas-history-curriculum-exper/

 

 

Lynne Richardson’s most recent weekly column in the The Free Lance-Star explores how exit interviews can identify issues for organizations.

“You work in an organization that seems to be experiencing an unusually high turnover rate in the past few months. Why?” Richardson writes.

Read the whole column here:

http://www.fredericksburg.com/business/columns/richardson-exit-interviews-can-identify-issues-for-organizations/article_a107df18-7c6d-570a-874b-7f0a64cdf81b.html?utm_source=WhatCountsEmail&utm_medium=Fredericksburg%20Business%20InsiderActive%20Subscribers&utm_campaign=Fredericksburg%20Business%20Insider

Elizabeth Larus, Professor of Political Science, appears on “The Heat” talking about U.S. economy under the Trump administration. To view the interviews go to:

https://america.cgtn.com/2018/02/27/the-heat-us-economy-under-trump-administration and

https://eblnews.com/video/heat-us-economy-under-trump-administration-pt-2-340350.

 

 

History professor Jason Sellers was recently featured in a column in The Free Lance-Star called Friends of Rappahannock rolling out connections to river via new oral history program.

“To create the program, FOR started working with faculty from UMW’s Department of History and American Studies in 2016, and not long after engaged a UMW student intern to help get the project off the ground.

“Jason Sellers, an assistant professor of history and American studies who has worked with the program, called it ‘a great opportunity for students to put a lot of different skills to work, and get real experience doing public history.’”

Read the whole story here:

http://www.fredericksburg.com/news/local/columns/hedelt-column-friends-of-rappahannock-rolling-out-connections-to-river/article_f8b4973b-1d75-56df-8c3b-c20175700b1a.html

 

Marissa Miller, Associate Coordinator of Student Conduct and Responsibility, recently won an award at a national conference.

On February 21-24, the Association for Student Conduct Administration (ASCA) held its annual conference in Jacksonville, Fla. Miller entered a case study competition for Mid-Level Professionals. The goal for each team was to review a case and present the team’s analysis to a panel of judges that included vice presidents, deans and past ASCA presidents.

Miller worked with colleagues from the University of Iowa and Illinois State University. Miller and her team won the case study competition for the Mid-Level Professionals and were awarded free registration for the 2019 ASCA conference.

Emile Lester, a political science professor, co-authored an op-ed in Texas newspaper The Caller Times.

“The ongoing textbook wars have embarrassed Texas for years,” the authors write in Take Politics Out of Texas Classrooms. Read more:

http://www.caller.com/story/opinion/2018/02/23/take-politics-out-texas-classrooms/368171002/

A report Lester co-authored was also featured in Statesman.com called Ideology Tops Facts in Texas History Curriculum.

“The quibble over working here could not be more misleading,” said Emile Lester, a report co-author and political science professor at the University of Mary Washington in Virginia. Read the article here:

http://www.statesman.com/news/state–regional-govt–politics/ideology-tops-facts-texas-history-curriculum-experts-say/YyYahXUhcDuZvUAQjhGgBL/