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Empowering Women for Academic Leadership Roles

by Dr. Marybeth Gasman, May 3, 2011

This past week, I had the pleasure of attending a session on empowering women for academic leadership roles. The event was held at the University of Pennsylvania and featured female academic leaders — our president, deans, center leaders and department chairs. Together, these impressive women offered advice to all of

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The Business Role in STEM Education

by Dr. Lorelle L. Espinosa, May 1, 2011

The month of April saw  at least two big announcements from the business community regarding the condition of math and science education in America. First, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce released “The Case for Being Bold: A New Agenda for Business in Improving STEM Education,” calling for the nation’s business

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Too Many Men Are Carefree About Their Health

by Dr. Elwood Watson, April 7, 2011

Several years ago, in the late 1990s, I remember watching an HBO special where a comedian made the comment “a man can have a foot growing in his stomach and he still will not go to the hospital.” At the time, the audience, like myself, laughed at the comment.  Fast

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Pell Grants as Costly and ‘Harmful’ Welfare?

by Dr. Ibram Rogers, April 6, 2011

As American politicians and educators continue to slice and dice away at higher education resources and programs using the hollow, yet sharp knives of austerity, the future of a diverse academy increasingly looks bleak and dreary. The widely used justification — the need to cut costs and reduce the national deficit

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Financial Aid Must Go Further

by Dr. Lorelle L. Espinosa, March 25, 2011

The importance of Pell Grant funding and other forms of need-based financial aid – including aid programs at the state and institutional levels – are well established and fiercely debated by secondary and postsecondary educators, among others, who work with students and families on a daily basis. Hence the flurry

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