I received a distinct honor this past February. It started three years ago when I was a guest presenter in The Division of Scholarly Integrity and Research Compliance’s Investigator Series at Virginia Tech. This office manages the Institutional (Research) Review Board (IRB), among other activities. This Investigator Series is a means of sharing ethical considerations … [Read more…]
By offering a third plan for student loan debt forgiveness, President Joe Biden seems determined to reduce the amount of debt that many Americans owe from their student loans, that is, their borrowing for college expenses. Why? Student debt has more than doubled over the last two decades. As of March 2023, 44 million borrowers … [Read more…]
March Madness, which stretched into April this year, is over. Let’s look at some bottom lines. And by the bottom lines, I mean money. The March Madness basketball tournaments generate substantial revenue. I have long advocated that basketball and football players at “big-time” schools—primarily the schools in the big five power conferences—be paid since they … [Read more…]
We have a problem in America—and it’s not the partisan divide. After the 2020 national election, an opinion piece in the Washington Post summarized the thinking of several political scholars who called it “political sectarianism,” suggesting something more substantial than “partisanship.” But political sectarianism can be misleading if it expresses “both-sideism” rather than which political … [Read more…]