Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Former Yale administrator stole $40M in electronics from school to buy luxury cars and homes, prosecutors say [New Haven Register]

 The flava:

A former Yale School of Medicine administrator pleaded guilty Monday after stealing and reselling more than $40 million worth of computers and electronic devices while employed by the university, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Connecticut.

The article:

https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/Former-Yale-administrator-stole-40M-in-17034496.php

1,000+ Professors Call For Full Student Debt Cancellation and Tuition-Free College [Business Insider]

 The flava:

Canceling student debt won't solve all the inequities in higher education — but it's a vital first step,
professors say.

Over 1,000 faculty members from universities across the country, including Columbia, Yale, Berkeley, and the University of Michigan, signed a letter urging President Joe Biden to deliver on full student debt cancellation for federal borrowers. The letter, which was organized by the Debt Collective — the nation's first debtor's union — and obtained by Insider, said that the growing $1.7 trillion student debt crisis is causing "instructional harm," forcing borrowers to assume studies that would best help them pay off their debt. They say it has also exacerbated the labor shortage for faculty, because many of them are student debtors themselves.

The article:

https://www.businessinsider.com/read-why-1000-professors-support-universal-student-loan-debt-cancellation-2022-3

Monday, March 14, 2022

Kofi Annan's postulation

 “Education, is quite simply, peace building by another name.  Education is the most effective form of defense spending there is.”

—Kofi Annan, secretary general of the United Nations, on September 10, 1999

The speech:

https://www.un.org/press/en/1999/19990910.sgsm7125.doc.html

Wednesday, March 9, 2022

Big Hungry

Have you dumbed down your classes during the COVID pandemic?