Journalist – Historian – Speaker
I am teaching of version of Western civilization which my students meet in person about 75% of the time and about 25% of the time online. I love it. I use that online time and space to build connections among the students that in fact it might not happen in class and also to find …
This was good news: President Simon Newman of Mount St. Mary’s University resigns. More shortly. https://t.co/PvBNnGYxqe — David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) March 1, 2016 My piece on the illegality of his plan under Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation act was here, for The Establishment. Welcome to the Trumpification of higher ed. There are many reasons …
Mount St. Mary’s University gave a survey to its incoming class that allegedly was used as a tool to identify the most at-risk members in order to try to drive them from the school. I will have a piece on this with The Establishment soon. Here’s the survey via Scribd. Given its alleged purpose, I find the …
From Vox, Julia Belluz has quite a story. The University of Maryland issued a press release about a new study on the effects of a single brand of chocolate milk on cognitive and motor skill tests in high school athletes. The story, as she documents, is that Fifth Quaker Fresh funded research, the scientists did …