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The political gamesmanship between Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald and Mayor Luke Ravenstahl appears to have reached the lightning round.
State Sen. Wayne Fontana, whom Ravenstahl booted from the Sports & Exhibition Authority just after the board of directors' last meeting, might be back on the SEA board shortly after its next meeting, thanks to a pending appointment by Fitzgerald.
Fitzgerald plans to send Fontana's nomination to County Council on Thursday to fill the SEA seat ex-Sen. Sean Logan recently vacated, Fitzgerald spokeswoman Amie Downs confirmed.
County Council could approve the appointment as soon as April 16, five days after the SEA's next scheduled meeting.
Ravenstahl declined to comment.
Fitzgerald said he appointed Fontana because Fontana's Senate district includes all four SEA-owned properties; he was elected board chairman three times; he holds an influential position in state government; and he "is known as a consensus-builder."
"I appreciate the county executive showing the confidence in me to put me on the board," Fontana said.
The mayor and county executive get three appointments each and one joint appointment to the seven-member board, which oversees the North Shore sports stadiums, Uptown hockey arena and David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Downtown.
Logan, a UPMC executive, resigned about the time Ravenstahl kicked Fontana off the board on March 15.
Ravenstahl's chief of staff, Yarone Zober, said at the time that Fontana's removal had nothing to do with Fontana's endorsement four days earlier of City Councilman Bill Peduto, a Ravenstahl foe, for mayor.
Ravenstahl, who is not running for re-election, appointed his aide and former campaign manager Paul McKrell to take Fontana's place.
Fitzgerald backs Peduto — and unlike Fontana, he didn't wait for Ravenstahl to drop out of the race to support him publicly.
"I guess if there's a way to show the public that you two are at odds, that's the way to do it," said Gerald Shuster, political communication professor at the University of Pittsburgh.
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The Call of Duty Endowment today opened the nomination process for its 2015 Seal of Distinction, which the Endowment awards to non-profit veterans' organizations that demonstrate the highest levels of effectiveness and efficiency in connecting recent military veterans with meaningful career opportunities. The Seal of Distinction, which has become a hallmark of high performance in the veterans' nonprofit space, is accompanied by a $30,000 unrestricted grant. Up to five organizations will be awarded the Seal of Distinction this year.
"The Seal of Distinction is the preeminent standard of excellence in the veterans' employment sector," said Dan Goldenberg, executive director of the Call of Duty Endowment. "Our past winners are extremely effective at placing recent veterans into highquality careers, at less than one third the average cost of federal vet job placement programs."
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The quality of Seal of Distinction awardee placements is high. Previous awardees place veterans, on average, in positions with starting salaries above $41,250. Ninetyfour percent of placements are fulltime, and 87 percent have a retention rate of at least six months.
The Call of Duty Endowment was founded in 2009 and has funded job placements for over 12,000 veterans. It launched the Seal of Distinction in 2013 and last year awarded $4.9 million total in grants to 11 veteranfocused employment nonprofits, which helped 7,773 veterans find careers, at an average costperplacement of $901.
Goldenberg added, "Young post-9/11 veterans are 79% more likely to be unemployed than non-veterans. With over 47,000 nonprofits aiming to help vets, performance standards like our Seal of Distinction are very important. Funders want to know that resources are helping the most veterans possible, and vets want to connect with organizations most likely to jumpstart their careers."
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (March 16, 2011) Renowned cancer researchers Robert Weinberg, a Founding Member of Whitehead Institute, and Douglas Hanahan, Director of the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC) have updated their seminal review, "Hallmarks of Cancer," which has influenced the study of cancer and the development of therapeutics for more than a decade.
Published in January 2000, their original work, which codified the traits that all cancers have in common, would go on to become the most-cited article ever to appear in the journal Cell. Their new paper, "Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation," incorporates information gleaned from the past eleven years of cancer research. This latest review, found in a recent edition of Cell, is expected to have a similarly profound impact on the study of cancer and the quest for approaches to treat it.
Cancer is a large class of very different diseases, all of which grow uncontrollably and have the ability to spread, or metastasize, throughout the body. Thousands of studies annually try to decipher these diseases and produce immense datasets that are not necessarily applicable across the constellation of cancers. To help researchers develop a functional framework for cancer as a whole, the first article distilled all of the existing research to describe six fundamental characteristics of cancer.
"In this way, the original review has been highly influential to a generation of scientists both in and outside of the cancer field," says Robert Kruger, Deputy Editor of Cell. " It is indeed rare to go to a scientific meeting on cancer and not see the figures from the review presented in the introductory slides of researchers' talks."
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"The page dedicated to Jack LaLanne strays from what we usually do at Personal Training Certification 101, but we believe this can be an inspiration to any trainer looking to not only have an impact in someone's life, but to have an impact on the world as well," explained Desmond Baldwin, owner of PersonalTrainingCertification101.com. "Personal trainers can learn from LaLanne's truly pioneering spirit and can carry on his legacy of health and fitness by keeping an open mind and always looking for solutions." For instance, a personal trainer following in the mold of LaLanne might try to improve upon the existing design of a machine or workout program, and do so with confidence."
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Relationship with our parents
By John Linton
20 Nov 2008
"I'm beginning to hear voices and there's no one around
Well, I'm all used up and the fields have turned brown
I went to church on Sunday and she passed by
My love for her is taking such a long time to die
I'm waist deep, waist deep in the mist
It's almost like, almost like I don't exist
I'm twenty miles out of town and cold irons bound"
It was January 15, 2004, a day I'll never forget. The temperature was near zero and the wind was howling when I got the late afternoon phone call from my older sister, Laura. She was in tears and said Mom had suffered a massive brain hemorrhage and was in the hospital. I asked what the prognosis was and she gave the phone to the doctor. When I asked what could be done she said, "We've done all we can do." My sister came back on the phone and said she'd place the phone next to Mom's ear so I could say something. I mumbled, "I love you Mom." When Laura came back on the phone I told her I was on my way and hung up.
"One look at you and I'm out of control
Like the universe has swallowed me whole
I'm twenty miles out of town and cold irons bound"
Brenda was in Las Vegas with her girlfriends so I left a message at their hotel telling her Mom was in the hospital and I was headed for Maine. I packed an overnight bag, food for the dogs, and the three of us headed out into the cold night for the 2 1/2 hour drive to Maine. On the drive north I thought about the divorce that took place more than thirty years earlier. Dad headed back to North Carolina in search of his youth while Mom stayed in Maine where hers had been. A year later the divorce papers showed up on her doorstep.
A few years later Mom's old high school boyfriend-the one she had turned down which caused him to throw the ring in the river-showed up and they began seeing each other again even though he was a married man. His family found out about her after he died from lung cancer. About the same time Dad met and married Nan, someone he had not known when he was a teenager, but who had lived close by. I'd visit Mom regularly and she always wished Dad the best. I'd visit Dad very infrequently because I knew I'd have to listen to how the 30 years with Mom was the worst time of his life and that he thanked his lucky stars he'd found Nan. I've visited more often since Nan died last year. Dad no longer dredges up the "unhappy days" like he once did.
"Oh, the winds in Chicago have torn me to shreds
Reality has always had too many heads
Some things last longer than you think they will
There are some kind of things you can never kill
It's you and you only, I'm been thinking about
But you can't see in and it's hard lookin' out
I'm twenty miles out of town and cold irons bound"
When I reached the hospital Laura was waiting for me with the news that Mom had passed away shortly after I'd hung up the phone. She wanted me to see her. We walked down into the bowels of the hospital with the doctor until we came to a door. I should never have opened it.
"Well the fats in the fire and the water's in the tank
The whiskey's in the jar and the money's in the bank
I tried to love and protect you because I cared
I'm gonna remember forever the joy that we shared
Looking at you and I'm on my bended knee
You have no idea what you do to me
I'm twenty miles out of town in cold irons bound
Twenty miles out of town and cold irons bound"
This was the last picture I ever took of Mom. It was at Christmas and my older sister, Laura, is in the picture. Mom had 21 day left to live.
Mom had written down what she wanted done after her death. One of the things she wanted was for me to say a few words at the church service. I ended by quoting Paul McCartney who wrote "And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make." And then I said that it seemed to me that Mom had traveled through life on a river of love the size of the Mississippi.
Thanks to Andrea Petersen for the nomination.
43 responses
Rob Roy (Deleted) gave props (20 Nov 2008):
John, this is likely the most beautiful parental tribute I've ever read. He knew it before you wrote it …I'm betting He shared it with your dear mother and that it drew her most grateful and loving smile ever! Thanks for sharing! "…with God all things are possible." —Matthew 19:26
Spectre Photo gave props (20 Nov 2008):
This was so beautiful to read, thank you so much for sharing this. :)
Karen K Smith gave props (20 Nov 2008):
Beautiful (through tears).
Litz Go gave props (20 Nov 2008):
John, this so beautiful and very touching story, Thank you for sharing .
Gail Anderson gave props (20 Nov 2008):
oh John. you tell a story so beautifully. i think because the reader knows you are sharing a part of yourself in each one. this is a beautiful story that brought me to tears. you shared a part of yourself with us today, thank you.
Lynn H (Deleted) gave props (20 Nov 2008):
Very touching.....ty for sharing this with is....it's beautiful.
Penny Nannini gave props (20 Nov 2008):
You made me cry (at work!). Beautiful tribute!
Simon Kossoff (Deleted) gave props (20 Nov 2008):
Such a touching tribute, John. Lovely..
david ong gave props (20 Nov 2008):
very touching...
Christine Corrigan gave props (20 Nov 2008):
John, A beautiful and touching story!For the quiet guy in the photo class,You have alot to say and say it so well you really have alot to say and always say it so
Sherry Davis Johnson gave props (20 Nov 2008):
*Tears* John, thank you for sharing the tender parts of your life with us. You always choose just the right songs for the soundtrack.
Vicki Koch said (20 Nov 2008):
John you are always so kind with your comments of my meger photos. Thank you
Thank you for the story of your mom, I could feel her love she gave you in this story. I believe your dad was or is more mad at himself more then your mom ever, we always see what we do not like about ourselves in other people...
I am just sad I did not get to meet your mom.
Thank you for sharing.
Farras Abdelnour gave props (20 Nov 2008):
so touching and so beautifully written
Kiwi ana (Deleted) said (21 Nov 2008):
This is a beautiful story John!
I love the animated conversation you captured.
Michael Ball gave props (21 Nov 2008):
Very touching story!!! Very well done!! I really at a loss for words!
Sonia Adam Murray gave props (21 Nov 2008):
John your love shines through, your story is very touching, thank you so much for sharing!
Sherry gave props (21 Nov 2008):
Powerful and emotional story !
peggy gardner gave props (21 Nov 2008):
very touching story john. I lost my mother, passed in her sleep, 8 years ago this past oct....I know the love between a mother and daughter can be stressed, but ours wasnt. In addition, being the mother of four sons, I know and can feel the relationship you had with your mother and let me tell you it never dies...even when one parts. Very neat shot, I'm sure you're happy to have it. I admire her finger pointing....a personal trait I'm fond of myself...
Camille Susak gave props (22 Nov 2008):
Just beautiful-thanks for sharing-wow-moms-what a blessing~
Sharon Griffin gave props (22 Nov 2008):
Such a loving and heartfelt tribute ! I'm sure your eulogy was just as moving as this if not more and that your Mom smiles and watches over you everyday from that specail place in Heaven, reserved just for great Moms like yours and mine.
Lori Reece gave props (26 Nov 2008):
Sounds like your Mom was very special! Your are lucky to have had her!
Natalie S gave props (29 Nov 2008):
! Mario Scattoloni ¡ gave props (2 Dec 2008):
A very touching story John. You have brought me 2 a very emotional place with this tribute to your mom (& dad in a sense), I never got that chance 2 say goodbye 2 either of my parents in this manner. Touching tale & oh so beautifully written John.THanks for sharing that heart felt moment with us here.
Loree McComb gave props (5 Dec 2008):
OMG! this is so lovely - It's so difficutlt to lose our parents but then again, that is the circle of life - My deepest condolences to you and your family
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Richard Knight (Deleted) said (15 Aug 2009):
John, this is literature. Well, we were on the watch in January of 2004, as well. Dad left us in the early morning of January 30. We took no chances. For minutes after he drew his last breath, we reassured him of our devotion and gratitude -- we did not want to risk the possibility that his presence was still in the room. I am confident that he is enjoying fair weather and following seas, the wish of every sailor. Thanks.
Christopher J Chalk gave props (12 Jul 2011):
So beautifully worded,John. An emotional but such a meaningful and loving story!
Sonia Adam Murray gave props (12 Jul 2011):
John it was wonderful reading your story again, very moving and beautiful!
Susan Littlefield gave props (12 Jul 2011):
A very moving story, John. Your poignant words have touched many, I'm sure! My mom is getting ready to celebrate her 90th this year, and my dad his 93rd; I know that one of these days in the not to distant future, I will go through this upheaval as well. Beautifully written, John.
Carol Arntsen Masiak said (12 Jul 2011):
so well written - thank you for sharing, John...
Andrea Petersen gave props (12 Jul 2011):
John, Your story moved me to tears...but that's what a great story writer should do ...evoke emotion and to touch the heart.. Thank you for this beautiful story..You got my vote!
Kathleen Mercado (Deleted) said (12 Jul 2011):
No words for this.
I'm just sorry Chris beat me to the nomination. Thank you for sharing this important and very personal experience.
Pamela Haberman gave props (12 Jul 2011):
Lump in the throat. Poignant stuff John, and very, very well done.
dp * gave props (12 Jul 2011):
Lovely story. Thanks for the great read, sorry I missed this until now. Story of the week .... for sure!!
Richard Knight gave props (12 Jul 2011):
John, my dad followed your mom fifteen days later (30Jan2004). Thank you for your poignant essay. When you turn to editing, please let me know. You could improve on my writing.
Winky Vivas (Deleted) said (12 Jul 2011):
John, thank you for sharing this very personal, beautiful, and moving story with us. Very well written, indeed...
Betty Maxey gave props (12 Jul 2011):
Wow, tissue warning! Such a moving story John!
Julia Robertson (Deleted) gave props (12 Jul 2011):
Thank you so much for sharing this story. I share a similar experience, my mother passed away December 16 2007.
Suzanne McGeady said (12 Jul 2011):
I have come all over with goosebumps!! John what a most wonderful, emotional and loving story of your dear Mum. how sad, and how precious. Words have a way of bringing solace, of healing, and of remembering. Thank you for sharing. A beautiful worded tribute to your Mum.
Carol Holmes gave props (15 Jul 2011):
Beautifully tribute, John...thank you for sharing.*tears*
Deborah Downes gave props (23 Jul 2011):
Wow! Have chills over this deeply moving tribute. You're a talented writer, as well as a gifted photographer. I greatly admire your work.Thanks so much for sharing.
Andrea Petersen gave props (7 Mar 2014):
I got tears in my eyes when I read your photo essay...Very powerfully written and felt....You are good at expressing yourself in your photography and in your writing...You have my vote!
Frank Summers gave props (8 Jun 2014):
Wonderful tribute, Thank you for sharing with the world.
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Feb 8, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 20 • By JAMES GARDNER
To remedy the deficiencies (relatively speaking) in Project Gutenberg's foreign language offerings, it helps to go to sites linked to the national libraries of the languages in question. Even if you can't read a word of Spanish, you ought to feel awe before the Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes. The 17th-century dramatist Lope de Vega is in all likelihood the most prolific dramatist in human history: He is estimated to have written over 1,800 plays, of which the site offers 425—because only 425 of these plays survive. The site offers similar depth for authors like Tirso de Molina and Quevedo, who were scarcely less prolific than Lope. And there are sites every bit as good for German, Catalan, Italian, and French literature. Even if you don't read Russian, it is nice to know that every surviving syllable of Tolstoy, that prolific titan, is available on one website, from his novels and journalism to his diaries and correspondence.
Regarding dead languages like Latin, Ancient Greek, and Sanskrit, things are even better. Every scrap of Latin that survives from antiquity is available online, as are most medieval texts. Meanwhile, the estimable Dana F. Sutton of the University of California, Irvine, has assembled the Philological Museum which, over the past 10 years, has assembled links to more than 33,000 Latin texts written during or since the Renaissance, an astounding number given that it probably represents half of all the texts ever published in Latin in that period.
Taken altogether, the result of this torrent of texts is a revolution in the interaction of the individual and world literature. Now the great corpus of world literature, rather than being something you purchase in single, costly installments, becomes a kind of glowing mass that is out there in the ether, available to everyone everywhere, at all times and at no cost, a thing as freely available as air or water or sunlight.
Many of these texts, it is true, are in PDF files which, to date, e-readers have been very bad at accommodating. That is a shame, since all of the texts scanned by Google Books are in this form. The issue, however, has largely been solved by the newest version of the Amazon Kindle, whose screen is far larger and looks much better than the earliest version. And now the iPad is the first e-reader to offer color, a major step in their merging with newspapers and magazines.
Another overlooked glory of the e-reader is that it permits you to create your own personalized edition of the work in question. You can append an introductory essay or the author's entry from Wikipedia, add annotations that are also available online, or add whatever other texts and commentaries you please.
There are those who will lament the gradual passing of the physical book as an institution and work of art. And there will also be some who will decry the e-reader on the grounds that it cheapens the act of reading. It is true that the more difficult it is to obtain a text, the more we cherish it once it is acquired. When only two copies of Lucretius existed in 14th-century Europe, and when you had to trek across an entire continent just to read it, surely you valued the opportunity more than most of us can imagine today. But that must not detract from the infinitely greater service to culture and to the study of world literature that comes from the prospect of having these works available to us for free at any moment and in any land.
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Published: July 12, 1999
Reacting to an investigation by Federal prosecutors that found widespread problems in the way the New York City Police Department handles brutality complaints, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said yesterday that he would never agree to a Federal monitor or other outside oversight of the department.
''My administration never compromises on matters of principle,'' Mr. Giuliani replied tersely when asked whether he had considered changing his position. The Mayor has long opposed outside supervision of the police and has twice vetoed City Council legislation to create an independent monitoring board.
If the city does not agree to changes sought by the United States Attorney in Brooklyn, Zachary W. Carter, who directed the nearly two-year inquiry into the Police Department, the Justice Department may sue the city to seek a court-ordered overhaul and perhaps the appointment of a monitor.
Mr. Giuliani declined yesterday to discuss negotiations between his administration and Mr. Carter's office. Mr. Carter is due to leave his post for private practice at the end of this week and, according to some aides, would like to reach an agreement with the city before his departure, but it remains unclear what steps by the city might satisfy him.
Under Federal rules governing investigations of local police departments, Mr. Carter must present the findings of his inquiry to the city and seek a resolution before the Justice Department files suit. Mr. Carter so far has declined to make public any specific conclusions of the investigation.
A spokesman for Mr. Carter's office, William Muller, said yesterday that he would not comment on what specific issues are the subject of negotiations. At City Hall, the matter is being handled chiefly by Michael D. Hess, the city's Corporation Counsel.
The Mayor, who held his daily news conference yesterday at Shea Stadium, before attending the Yankees-Mets game, repeated his assertions that criticism of the Police Department is politically motivated. And he reiterated his staunch defense of the city's police officers.
''The New York City Police Department is the most restrained large-city police department in the country,'' Mr. Giuliani said, invoking what has become almost a mantra for him since the fatal shooting of Amadou Diallo, an unarmed immigrant, by four police officers last February.
''Although the Justice Department has a role in investigating police departments,'' the Mayor said, ''New Yorkers have certainly the right to ask, 'What about all the other cities where police officers shoot people two, three, four, five times per capita more than in New York City?' ''
Mr. Giuliani praised the Police Department's ability to control large crowds, and offered the handling of the blackout in northern Manhattan last week as the latest example of the department's improved relations with the community and its success in preventing crime.
''I think the bashing of the N.Y.P.D. has been relentless for about four or five months,'' Mr. Giuliani said. ''What I'd like to focus on this weekend is for the city to sit back and say maybe the bashing has gone too far, when you can have the lights go out in a major urban area that used to lead the Northeast in homicides five or six years ago, was a major drug center, and the lights can go out for 18 to 30 hours and you can have virtually no violence during that period of time, you can have 1,500 police officers there, no incidents other than cooperation. Maybe, just maybe, the New York City Police Department is doing something right and the bashing has created a wrong perspective.''
Last year, Mr. Giuliani rejected the majority of recommendations made by a task force he appointed to explore ways of improving relations between the police and residents. Among the recommendations rejected by the Mayor was the proposal for an auditor to monitor the Civilian Complaint Review Board, which has the power to investigate brutality complaints but no power to discipline officers.
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A booking agency that represents musician Jack White has reportedly blacklisted the University of Oklahoma after the student paper printed excerpts of White's contract ahead of a concert there last week. The Oklahoma Daily wrote two articles after obtaining the contract through the state's open records law. One article highlighted White's $80,000 fee while another, snarkier article detailed his tour rider, a document that included stipulations for a steak dinner, "aged salami with a sharp knife" and "FRESH HOME-MADE GUACAMOLE" for the band ("we want it chunky"). The rider also included a detailed recipe for the guacamole and a ban on bananas, stating that "this is a NO BANANA TOUR."
In response, William Morris Endeavor Entertainment -- the agency that booked White at the university and that also represents acts like the Foo Fighters, Pharrell Williams and Alicia Keys -- told the university's Campus Activities Council that it will no longer book artists at Oklahoma until its "policy is modified not to disseminate private information," according to The Oklahoma Daily. William Morris Endeavor Entertainment did not return a request for comment.
White's management, Monotone, Inc., released a statement Friday saying it and White have not blacklisted the university and clarifying that White did not write the rider himself. "We're not even sure he likes guacamole," Monotone stated. The company also referred to the actions of the student newspaper as "unfortunate, unprofessional and very unwelcoming."
"His contract wasn't something we leaked," Emily Sharp, the newspaper's assistant arts editor, wrote on Wednesday, after White also called out the staff during the concert. "It is public information that any of you could request. Many newspapers show contracts of celebrities that come into town; this isn't something The Daily did that's out of the ordinary. It's not a hidden document, and it's not something we had to dig to get. It is available to the public."
Four field hockey players charge U. of Iowa fired a winning coach because her tough, demanding style -- standard for coaches of male athletes -- was viewed as inappropriate for women.
In response to measles outbreak, colleges make new push on vaccinations. Meanwhile, norovirus spreads in Virginia.
It's widely acknowledged that adjunct instructors are underpaid, but just how much do they deserve? A new union proposal shocks some, but others say it's appropriate.
Two students at Providence College have been hospitalized with meningitis, The Providence Journal reported. Antibiotics are being provided to those who came into contact with the students. Guilford College also reported this week that a student was diagnosed with meningitis.
U. of California tried to respond to concerns about academic performance of athletes by changing the rules about when coaches can earn bonuses. Why was nobody satisfied?
Two people died Thursday in an apparent murder-suicide inside the University of South Carolina's Public Health Research Center. The university canceled all classes inside the new school of public health and sent out two alerts through its emergency messaging system. "Today, the USC family experienced a great tragedy," Harris Pastides, South Carolina's president, said in a statement, but he did not say if those involved in the shooting were students or faculty. Earlier this week, two Tulane University students also died in a murder-suicide. In an e-mail to students Sunday, Michael Fitts, Tulane's president, described the past year as "extraordinarily difficult." At least four Tulane students have committed suicide since August.
In November, a University of South Carolina student was killed by her boyfriend, and in October, a San Francisco State University student was shot to death by her ex-boyfriend. Both killings were also murder-suicides.
Colleges spent $407 billion in 2013 on formal education programs, while employers spent $177 billion, according to a new report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. The report found that employers also spent $413 billion on informal, on-the-job training. That means the workforce side of the total $1.1 trillion in expenditures on training outpaced that of higher education.
However, the rate of increase for spending on formal training has been faster in higher education -- an 82 percent increase since 1994 compared to a 26 percent increase by employers. Federally funded job training was the smallest piece of the pie, with $18 billion. College graduates receive the most formal training from employers, with 58 percent of the total expenditure by that sector compared to the 17 percent received by workers with a high school education or less.
Adjuncts at Boston University voted by a two to one margin to form a union affiliated with Service Employees International Union, they announced Wednesday. Some 750 adjuncts make up the union, which is part of SEIU's Faculty Forward campaign to organize part-time professors around Boston. Adjuncts already have formed unions at Tufts, Lesley and Northeastern Universities. Laurie LaPorte, an lecturer in anthropology at Boston University, said in a statement that organizing "started with a simple premise: if excellence in learning is the core mission of our university, then we need real investment in the classroom -- in the equitable, sustainable treatment of all educators." Colin Riley, university spokesman, said that the institution is "looking forward to working with the union representing our adjunct faculty."
I remember well the meeting with a senior faculty leader. It was early in my Wesleyan University presidency, and I was excited about the many things I hoped to see accomplished. We were talking about the objectives for the year that the administration would be presenting to the board of trustees, and I asked what her goals were. Clearly surprised by my invitation to help set the agenda for the university, this faculty veteran -- well respected by her colleagues and a devoted mentor for her students -- explained to me that she would do what she could to ensure that not much would change. When I seemed incredulous, she emphasized that "preventing disaster is not the same as doing nothing."
What to make of this exchange? Emblematic of the university's disdain for innovation? Of higher education's notorious inertia in the face of change? Certainly the conservative dimension of academic culture is real and important, protecting the university from merely echoing microtrends that may be irrelevant, even antithetical, to quality education. But in this age of increasingly rapid change fueled by technological innovation, we might find, to paraphrase Oscar Hammerstein, that we have been protected out of all we own.
In their Locus of Authority: The Evolution of Faculty Roles in Higher Education, William Bowen and Gene Tobin defend a contemporary model of shared governance, one that emphasizes robust consultation. In the end, however, they stress that if colleges and universities are to thrive in the current environment, the power to initiate changes and make them stick must be centralized. Although recognizing that new academic programs need faculty support, they underscore that the allocation of resources and even pedagogical initiatives are going to be most successful with leadership unbeholden to any existing constituency.
Successful change will emerge, Bowen and Tobin underscore, when leaders work for the good of the university as a whole and over time. Given that both authors were themselves presidents, it is unsurprising that when they look for people thinking of the good of the whole, they find them in the central administration.
Colleges and universities have been under enormous pressure to change, and change they have. Faculty authors of the Yale Report of 1828 defended their work against critics who claimed that colleges "are not adapted to the spirit and wants of the age; that they will soon be deserted, unless they are better accommodated to the business character of the nation." Sound familiar? The 19th-century Yale faculty pointed out that they also had to deal with alumni who complained that the college was no longer teaching the way it had decades before, just as today college-educated parents often express surprise that their children aren't learning the same things they were taught. The notion that professors have been teaching the same things in the same way for centuries is just false.
But modifications of the curriculum, even alterations in teaching style, may not be what the "disrupters" are looking for when they talk about the importance of transforming higher education. They want universities to be more nimble, capable of responding to the needs of students and to "just-in-time" research opportunities as these emerge. Critics rightly charge that the structures of universities insulate faculty, administrators and students from many stimuli (and incentives) for change. Sure, new kinds of colleges, like Minerva, and new platforms for taking classes, like Coursera, are putting pressure on some colleges to adjust, but according to higher education's critics, most institutions just go along their merry way.
I served as president at the California College of the Arts before coming to Wesleyan, and I've seen some pretty big changes at those institutions. Some of these changes came from enterprising faculty, others from students, and some from administrators who saw real advantages to altering the traditional models we were using. A few came from my own initiatives. All of them eventually required the kind of consultation Bowen and Tobin describe, though none of them would have had consensus right off the bat. In higher education, the promise of consensus usually devolves into the threat of veto. Consensus kills innovation.
At California College of the Arts (CCA), I had a key role in the momentous decision to change the name of the institution, long known as the California College of Arts and Crafts. Although I was personally committed to many of the values of the arts and crafts movement out of which the college emerged, I came to see that the name was no longer helpful in designating a vibrant place where digital design, architecture, film, fine arts and writing often intermingled in powerfully creative ways. We could have embraced the name and made it work, I thought, but the leadership of the college hadn't been doing that.
For at least 20 years much energy had been spent complaining about or defending the name. As president, I was able to guide a process involving faculty, students and board members that eventually led to the name being changed. My major contribution was just setting parameters for the discussion and saying that we would finish our decision-making process within a year. Either we would change the name or we would not talk about the issue for the duration of my presidency. In 2003, the board unanimously approved the name California College of the Arts, with the understanding that craft, design, architecture and writing were all part of our approach to learning through the arts.
After about three years or so at CCA, I introduced the idea of an M.B.A. with a focus on design. Lots of people laughed at the idea of a business degree at an art school. Having no business background myself, I hired a faculty member, designer Nathan Shedroff, to help plan a distinctive business program that would work in our creative context. The provost (now president), Steve Beal, and the CFO, David Kirshman, were enormously helpful in launching the program, which has now received international recognition from the design and business communities.
We brought the program for detailed discussion with more faculty members only after we had done quite a lot of planning -- and knew that we would not spend very much money in advance. Before launching the program, nobody else at the institution would have been invested in its success. If we had asked for a vote, we would have lost. Now, with allied programs, a larger faculty and successful alumni, the graduate Design Business program is an important part of the wonderfully eclectic CCA mix.
If these examples from CCA depict presidential initiative, two examples from Wesleyan shine a light on how individual faculty members can create broad institutional change. Over the past 30 years, Jeanine Basinger has taken film studies from the small interest area of a few colleagues to a fragile interdisciplinary program and on to a department with its own lines and facilities. As she has told me more than once, "They tried to kill it many times." But through her indefatigable efforts together with her example as a teacher and scholar, she turned film studies into one of the university's most widely recognized areas of excellence. And she's still going. Two years ago, I asked her and her colleagues to make the interdisciplinary department, including an important historical archive, into the College of Film and the Moving Image. We are now building an endowment for C-Film as a permanent part of our academic offerings.
Biologist and environmental scientist Barry Chernoff was one of several faculty who responded to my call for new academic proposals when I began my tenure at Wesleyan. A radically interdisciplinary scientist, Barry wanted to bring more collaborative research and teaching under the environmental studies tent. In 2009 we created the College of the Environment, a program in which all students have both a major in environmental science and a linked major -- be it economics or biology, anthropology or dance. In addition, there is a think tank attached to the college in which faculty and undergraduates from very different departments work together on collaborative projects. A number of important publications have already emerged, and we have built a significant endowment for the program.
In both these cases, individual faculty were not only the instigators of new programs, they were also the builders. As president, I knew when to get out of the way and also when I could help them raise additional resources to make their enterprises sustainable. This last part is often important in gaining buy-in from the faculty more generally. Raising additional resources "expands the pie" so that older departments don't block change out of fear that they themselves will receive less.
But the notion of expanding the pie also fosters illusions because it masks the trade-offs that should be visible with innovation. If new programs become more successful, according to transparent criteria, then resources should be reallocated. That often painful process of reallocation, as Bowen and Tobin argue, is the responsibility of the administration, and, ultimately of the board. It's up to the president and provost to explain publicly the criteria for the distribution of resources.
The faculty rightly controls the kinds of courses offered for credit, and it has clear rules for approving promotions, new classes and different modes of teaching. At Wesleyan, though, students have often played an important role, instigating changes in the curriculum by bringing their intellectual interests to the fore (we want environmental design! we want more art classes! more labs!). Recently students, along with a group of faculty who wanted to experiment with intensive teaching, were instrumental in opening up the academic calendar. They made a strong pitch to faculty leadership to offer classes in the summer, and then in the winter break. The intensive courses award full academic credit and are offered at sharply discounted tuition, incentivizing breaking away from the conventional undergraduate calendar.
These proposals had strong administrative support, and it was crucial that there were faculty leaders who were willing to try the new modes of teaching. Our summer and winter terms are small, but they are growing. They offer all students more pathways to complete their degrees, often with substantial cost savings and evidence of deep learning.
My final example of change at Wesleyan is my decision to partner with Coursera in the summer of 2012. This was an unusual moment, a time when I was convinced that we at Wesleyan needed more experimentation with online learning, a time of both MOOC mania and backlash against MOOCs. I was very impressed with Coursera cofounder Daphne Koller's approach to building a group of strong classes through an iterative process of running them and improving them.
Since these classes were not being offered for credit, I knew I did not need authorization from the faculty as a whole. We were going to produce the classes very economically, so money wasn't the issue. I decided to join the first group of Wesleyan teachers online, inviting some of the most respected and celebrated faculty members to join me in the experiment. We were very fortunate to enlist five colleagues from very different departments. None of us knew precisely what we were getting into, but we all were curious about pedagogical innovation and eager to share our classes for free with students from around the world.
When I announced this partnership at the first faculty meeting of the year, there was real consternation. Did I actually have the authority to do this, I was asked by one of my senior colleagues. Yes, I did, at least according to the board chair and the general counsel. I knew that the ice on which we'd started skating was thin, but in the end the success of our efforts would be judged by the individual teachers involved and then on a strategy and policy level by the relevant faculty and board committees.
If I had asked a general faculty meeting for authorization, I doubt we would have ever gotten started. Instead, I asked the faculty committees to respond to our reports on the classes we taught, to refine the process of selecting teachers and subjects, and to help determine which lessons from our online classes were relevant to our work on campus.
Wesleyan is a small place. We have around 3,000 students, mostly undergraduates. In our work with Coursera over the last few years, we have worked with more than 1,000,000 students from over 120 countries. All of us who have taught in the program find it exciting and frustrating by turns -- and tremendously invigorating. We are taking lessons into flipped classrooms as well as into more traditional seminars. The partnership with Coursera continues. We are learning together. If in the end the faculty deems the experiment a failure, then will move onto other experiments.
Changes are happening at America's colleges and universities as faculty, students and administrators grapple with making the education they offer more empowering beyond the university. Although the faculty as a whole may sometimes function as a guardian of mission and tradition, individual professors are often catalysts for innovations that can be put in the service of broad, strategic goals. As Bowen and Tobin emphasize, strong leadership recognizes the need for faculty as genuine participants rather than as adversaries.
And it's not just faculty who can launch sustainable change. Sometimes initiatives come from students eager to try to modes of learning, or to delve more deeply into subjects not yet well represented in the curriculum. Deans, provosts and presidents learn to get out of the way when tailwinds can carry worthwhile initiatives to fruition, but they also can themselves initiate curricular experimentation in areas where there is of yet no campus constituency for new programs.
Bowen and Tobin's main point is as simple as it is important: effective shared governance is not divided governance. Coordinated consultation and transparent decision making can ensure that universities aren't just protecting themselves out of all they own, but are learning how to promote inquiry, learning and creative practice in ways that remain most empowering today.
Michael S. Roth is president of Wesleyan University. His most recent books are Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters and Memory, Trauma and History: Essays on Living With the Past.
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