Listen to the article 5 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Several University of California faculty groups have accused the system of violating their free speech rights, chilling academic instruction and retaliating against those who participated in pro-Palestinian protests or voiced pro-Palestinian viewpoints online. The Council…
1. Optimize Existing Retail Spaces on Campus There are already plenty of places on college campuses that generate revenue outside of the bursar’s office. Bookstores, cafeterias, food courts, stadiums and arenas, and even vending machines all are opportunities for universities to bring in a few bucks from the on-campus and off-campus communities. In traditional…
(Left to right) Keith Ippel, OliviaHornby, Graham Day. After working for over a dozen years with traditional investments and institutions, Olivia Hornby was seeking to apply her skills to drive positive and meaningful change for the future when she discovered Vancouver-based accelerator, Spring Activator. Serial entrepreneur and investor Keith Ippel founded Spring Activator 10 years…
Which is not at all the same as saying everyone should just relax. The impacts of AI are already being felt across industries, with the World Economic Forum predicting that AI will replace 85 million jobs globally by 2025. Universities are knowledge factories producing knowledge workers for a global knowledge economy. Well, the knowledge economy is going…
Although the international education sector has known tough times, “there has never been a time when all three of the major markets have aligned with stupidity, as they have done in the last twelve months” said Mark Lucas, vice president of business development and global partnerships at HUATONG International. His comments were made at The PIE…
When Americans talk about the death penalty in the United States, we generally ignore a large swath of the middle of the country. In part, that is because only 200 of the 1594 executions that have taken place since 1976 occurred in the Midwest. However, looking at such reliably red states like Kansas, Nebraska, and…
Procrastination is a common trait among most of us since people naturally want to put off tasks until the last minute if they are unpleasant or if there are other pressing concerns that require attention. Lawyers, like everyone else, are guilty of procrastination, and clients can also wait until the last minute to complete tasks…
Local news became national news this week when a man serving life imprisonment for the murder of a one-year-old child on Christmas escaped from custody. According to the AP, 30-year-old Ramone Alston was able to free himself from leg restraints and run into the woods as his van arrived at a UNC hospital in Hillsborough,…
Published: 8/27/2024 Reading Time: 3 minutes The textbook “Policing in the U.S. Past, Present, and Future” takes a fresh look at contemporary policing issues. The book examines police topics while adding perspective and context and expanding the typical sound-bite explanations of interactions between the police and the community. Written from a social justice perspective, this…
(Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. To put it bluntly, any judge with reasonable ethical instincts would have realized immediately that flying the flag then and in that way was improper. And dumb. Flying those flags was tantamount to sticking a ‘Stop the Steal’ bumper…