College of Arts and Sciences

International Women’s Day was celebrated on Wednesday this week, and protests, parades, marches, and celebrations were held around the world.  The New York Times chronicled some of these activities here.  My first experience with International Women’s Day was in Bologna, Italy, in 1974, where women in the nascent Italian...

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Recently Betsy De Vos, Secretary of Education, publicly remarked on what might be understood as issues of some importance to universities and to university education and, of course, to our students. Secretary De Vos, speaking to college students at the Conservative Political Action Conference last month, is quoted as...

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At the moment, federal elections in the US have concluded and there have been no special elections to replace anyone who might have left his or her seat in the US House of Representatives (the US Constitution provides for this in Article I, Section 2).  In Great Britain, such...

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February is a month full of holidays:  Groundhog Day, Valentine’s Day, Presidents Day, and Mardi Gras, a celebratory day that precedes the onset of Lent (this day is also referred to as Shrove Tuesday, celebrated by the eating of pancakes).  In the US, we celebrate the birthdays of Presidents...

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Classes met this week on Tuesday and the new semester has begun, the continuity of the academic year in the context of a political season of substantial change.  On Monday, CWRU and the nation celebrated and commemorated the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., and today a new president...

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We begin a New Year in the United States with a change of government.  Our outgoing President Barack Obama said his farewells to the country in a speech in Chicago on Tuesday.  Yesterday, in his final time as President, Barack Obama awarded Vice President Joe Biden the Presidential Medal...

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