By Rosemarie Emanuele. One central issue in Labor Economics is that of human capital investment, or how people choose education or training in order to prepare themselves for jobs they desire. I found myself thinking of this recently as I recall a member of my graduate school program. Read more...
By Rosemarie Emanuele. One of the goals of Economics is often to predict what will happen in the economy before it happens. What will be the effect of the Brexit vote on the stock market? What will happen if the Federal Reserve increases interest rates. Read more...
By Barbara Fister. I’ve been busy all week taking care of a two-year-old. It’s amazing to watch a child that age learning constantly – new words, letters, numbers, how to put things together, how to take them apart. Read more...
By Barbara Fister. This has been a difficult few days. Just after I wrote to my senators urging them to do something about the all-too-frequent killing of black folks by police, another man was killed in Minnesota after being stopped for a broken taillight. Read more...
By Barbara Fister. Did you feel that? That rumble that made all the furniture shake and threatened to topple the library stacks like dominos (except that we made sure they are bolted securely after the last time)? Did you feel the world reeling around you. Read more...
By Barbara Fister. There’s a new State of the News Media report out (finally!) and, while I’m used to celebrating its arrival in March, it’s always worth waiting for – not because the news is good, it’s not. But it’s a way of checking up on an industry that matters. Read more...
By Tracy Mitrano. EDUCAUSE has sent out a request that members fill out a DOJ survey seeking conceptual thoughts (not formal notice and comment) on the implementation of standards for web accessibility under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Read more...
By John Warner. Five reasons why Pokémon Go is the future of education…By John Warner. I was recently disappointed to hear that street hockey is under threat in Canada. Thanks to public safety laws put into place banning children from playing in the streets, what was once a widely-shared pastime is increasingly endangered. Read more...By John Warner. As presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton announces her plan to make public college “tuition free” for households with incomes up to $125,000 a year, I think it’s worth remembering that we’ve already lived through an era where college tuition was not quite free, but when cost was neither a barrier to access, nor necessitated the acquisition of considerable debt. Read more.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
