College is key to attaining the American Dream (The Free Lance-Star)As a new academic year approaches and immigration debates dominate the news, I have been thinking about the American Dream, particularly about how college factors into what we call this somewhat elusive concept.https://www.fredericksburg.com/opinion/columns/commentary-college-is-key-to-attaining-the-american-dream/article_61326346-4753-5fb1-b749-a48f3c2ef5c4.html
The End of a Blogging Era at Harvard (Inside Higher Ed)The University of Mary Washington still has an active institutionally hosted blogging platform called UMW blogs, said Martha Burtis, director of the digital knowledge center of the university. But the popularity of the platform has diminished since the university started offering faculty and students the […]
Bellah Fontem, assistant professor in the College of Business, and business student Jeremiah Smith, had a paper accepted for publication by the European Journal of Operational Research. The paper is titled “Analysis of a Chance-Constrained New Product Risk Model with Multiple Customer Classes.”https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2018.07.042
Professors of Psychology Miriam Liss and Holly Schriffin, authors of Balancing the Big Stuff: Finding Happiness in Work, Family, and Life, have been invited to speak at The Parent Conference at James Madison University on Saturday, Sept. 22.The one-day educational and personal development event is for “anyone interested in the science of raising happy, healthy, and […]
In August 2018, Zach Whalen, associate professor of English and director of the minor in digital studies, traveled to Montreal to participate in the annual conference of the Electronic Literature Organization. At the conference, Whalen presented research on using computational text-analysis to study and interpret the work of a community of practitioners who use code […]
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