By Laura Tropp. Recently, I was shopping with my daughters for clothing. One is squarely within the “tween” market, and the other is on the cusp of it. I find shopping for them to be frustrating at times because of the lack of clothing choices. Read more...

By Laura Tropp. A student of my hybrid online class sent an email to me, complaining that the online notes for my class were designed poorly (she did not like the background colors) and that she was paying too much money for my sloppiness. Read more...

By Rosemarie Emanuele. As I teach Macroeconomics this semester, the subject ventures into topics relating to the role of the government in our economy. Such topics are central to the study of Keynesian Economics, an approach to Economics that used government policy to help draw the United States out of the Great Depression. Read more...

By Rosemarie Emanuele. When I teach Economics, I often begin by discussing how the subject is the study of how people make decisions in the face of scarcity. I then go on to discuss what kinds of things are “scarce” in our lives. Read more...

By Rosemarie Emanuele. In Linear Algebra, in isolating a variable by adding and subtracting multiples of given rows of equations to and from others, the position of the isolated variable is described as a “pivot” position. Read more...

By Rosemarie Emanuele. As we approach Labor Day this weekend, I am reminded of something that was often pointed out to me in graduate school. It seemed to be an accepted fact at the time that the sub-field of Labor Economics was heavily populated by women, leaving many to use the awkward phrase of “there are a lot of women in labor.” Despite this, I did go on to specialize in, among others, the field of labor economics. Read more...