By Laura Tropp. Last week, in advance of Mother’s Day, I gave the keynote address at the Museum of Motherhood’s Annual Conference. In the talk, I looked at the representation of motherhood and feminism in popular culture over the past year. I thought I would use this column to share some of what I have found. Read more...
25 mai 2016
Motherhood and Media
When You Can’t Check Your Privilege at the Door
By Laura Tropp. When the faculty at my college voted to add in a general education requirement to incorporate issues of race and ethnicity, I saw it as an opportunity to have my Motherhood class fit into this requirement; I could use this as a chance to make the class not just about motherhood issues but about understanding them within the lenses of race, class, and identity. Read more...
Math Geek Mom: Learning New Things
By Rosemarie Emanuele. Economic theory tells us that each country and person should find what it is that they are best at and focus on doing that. This theory of “comparative advantage” has been on my mind recently as I have watched my daughter excel at things that seem impossible to many around her. Read more...
Math Geek Mom: The Purpose of College
By Rosemarie Emanuele. I discovered early in this sabbatical that I needed to learn more Game Theory in order to be able to write coherently about the ways it relates to the workings of the nonprofit sector. Read more...
Math Geek Mom: Fun
By Rosemarie Emanuele. It is often the case that, when modeling choices involving leisure and working for pay, economists model leisure as the amount of time left over after one has chosen the number of hours to work. Read more...
Math Geek Mom: Exercising Judgement
By Rosemarie Emanuele. There is an idea in Economics that discusses where firms will “place” their products, both physically and in terms of small differences in those products. Often described as “ice cream vendors on the beach” it does not necessarily deal with ice cream or beaches, but can be seen in clusters of similar businesses, such as gas stations or fast food restaurants, or even in types of cereal that tend to group themselves by tastes. Read more...
Reflections After Class
By Tracy Mitrano. In the Internet Law and Policy class I am currently teaching, this week we talked about consumer privacy. We began with an overview of the five areas of U.S. privacy law: Constitutional Privacy; Government Surveillance; Information Privacy; Privacy Torts; and Administrative Law Privacy (e.g. Banking, Consumer Bureau and Federal Trade Commission). Read more...
Memo to the Candidates, Part II
By Tracy Mitrano. Res ipsa loquitur, this point speaks for itself. True, we have a geographically expansive country. But also true is there is no reasonable excuse for allowing whole sectors of that expanse or populations of people to be marginalized in what everyone knows is the gateway to education, the workplace, politics and culture of U.S. and global society writ large. Read more...
Memo to the Candidates
By Tracy Mitrano. Notwithstanding different platforms and personalities that distinguish your campaigns, you all seem to be missing a critical component: The Internet. Allow me to make the case. Read more...
Introducing TACC!
By Tracy Mitrano. It is with pleasure that I introduce a unique, new information management and cybersecurity program hosted by the University of Massachusetts Amherst: Trust, Assurance and Cybersecurity Certificate Program. Read more...
