Four hours
It took me four hours today to write and polish a disposition e-mail to the author(s) of a submission. This was a manuscript that I enjoyed very much but for a variety of reasons could not publish, and I owed the author(s) some good advice, or at least the best advice I could give. When […]
Sansom and Richburg indictment and grand jury report…
… are available online thanks to the St Petersburg Times.
Northwest Florida State College president indicted on perjury
As several news sources are now reporting, a Leon County, Florida, grand jury is indicting former Florida House Speaker Ray Sansom and Northwest Florida State College President Bob Richburg on charges of official misconduct over the shuttling of state funds to the college. In addition, the grand jury is indicting Richburg for perjury. The second […]
Are GPAs dirty while the SAT-I score is clean?
Before I dive into a minor patch of weeds, some basic issues: Above all else, the vast majority of college and university admission slots are not at selective institutions, so the debate over SAT use for deciding admissions should largely be tangential to policy concerns about postsecondary attainment. This is akin to spending all one’s […]