Summer colds
Sign of a head cold: when you get about 20% of what you expected done in the morning. So I took the afternoon off and for the first time in more than a year, took sick leave. That’s rare for faculty, since we have flexible schedules. But I figured that if I was going to […]
SREB report on college funding may be outdated
On page 46 of the Southern Regional Education Board‘s report on the region’s education system is a graph on Florida’s public four-year funding, and it purports to show a 14% increase in per-student state funding (an 11% decrease after adjusting for inflation) from 2001 to 2007. According to the SREB’s page on the state data […]
No doubts
I don’t think there is any reasonable doubt among the relevant historians that the killing of Armenians in 1915 was genocide. And now, it looks remarkably like a defunding threat from the government of Turkey pushed Donald Quataert out of the position of board chair at the Institute of Turkish Studies.