Even though it is sometimes difficult to "read between the lines" to assess whether or not people in an organization are welcoming...

The U.S. Constitution includes immigration as one of the listed (i.e., enumerated) powers of the federal government. Education is not such a...

If a local culture does not value education, such that the public education system is weak, and furthermore engages in and enables aggres...

Perhaps no greater Renaissance man has been cited in American history than Thomas Jefferson. He wrote on the native plants of his country, ...

It would surprise virtually every American (but only a few Europeans) to know that neither the JD nor the MD degree is a doctorate.    Eac...

The New York Times reported in December 2011 that affluent foreigners had been rushing to take advantage of a U.S. immigration program. The...

As the field of leadership consulting continues to proliferate, fringe-elements have developed that risk taking down the credibility of th...

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both strongly believed that the continued viability of a republic depends on an educated and virtuous citiz...

Film is indeed an art form, but the medium can also function as a teacher in how it conveys values and wisdom. Both of these features of fi...

In the typical business school, this question would be interpreted, or “refurbished.” Can students be trained to become ethical leaders? Wh...

With the Ebola virus “spreading like wildfire” in Liberia, “devouring everything in its path,” Brownie Samukai, the state’s defense ministe...

Advancing clocks an hour ahead to Daylight Savings Time conveniently announces itself as the easy-to-remember Spring Forward . Advancing de...

In the PBS series Downton Abbey, the Victorian countess, magnificently played by Maggie Smith, delivers a reverberating line as fit for m...

“Publish or perish” is the infamous mantra of those intrepid scholars who work at research universities and many prestigious Liberal Arts ...

Can ethical leadership be taught? In the typical business school, this question would be interpreted, or “refurbished.” Can students be tra...

The University of Virginia was thrown into a bit of an uproar in June 2012 after the university's president, Teresa Sullivan, ...

Facing a federal requirement that every student be proficient in math and English by 2014, the member-states in the U.S. rushed to apply for...

In the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787, some delegates expressed the concern that giving the General (federal) Government the autho...

As president, Thomas Jefferson campaigned against the U.S. Supreme Court in the pivotal 1800 election after the court let the Alien and Se...

For all the American lawyers and law “professors” who had been predicting on the basis of their "expertise" that the three days ...