Discourse

  • Is It Time to Treat Bigotry As a Public Health Problem?

    Is It Time to Treat Bigotry As a Public Health Problem?

    Last Wednesday, four days before the start of Chanukah, Elizabeth Midlarsky, a holocaust scholar and professor at Columbia Teachers College, walked back to her office to find swastikas and the derogatory term “Yid” spray-painted on her walls. On Friday, a Hispanic father and son were beaten and bloodied outside of a tire shop in Salt… Read More

  • Setting the Story Straight: Restoring Conscience in Business

    Setting the Story Straight: Restoring Conscience in Business

    Humanity has made great strides in many areas over the past centuries, yet one major challenge we still must face is our notion of business performance and business education. As a member of the baby-boom generation, I am still pleasantly impressed about the progress I witnessed in my lifetime so far: from not having a… Read More

  • A Year Later, Has the Twitter Response to #MeToo Been Effective?

    A Year Later, Has the Twitter Response to #MeToo Been Effective?

    While many sexual violence prevention strategies on Twitter can be potentially effective, a new study has found that they still have gaps and may even leave room for some misinformation and myths about sexual violence. Since October 2017, the #MeToo movement has exploded into a global phenomenon, giving victims of sexual violence a voice, confronting… Read More

  • Study Finds Underlying Reason for Bias Against Immigrants

    Study Finds Underlying Reason for Bias Against Immigrants

    A new study led by Yale University has found that fear of disloyalty drives members of a majority group to hold negative bias against minority group individuals who claim more than one identity. The researchers wondered if the societal majority group had negative bias against immigrants, specifically those who prefer to hold dual identities —… Read More

  • Why Is Working in College Harder for Low-income Students?

    Why Is Working in College Harder for Low-income Students?

    It’s common for students to work while in college. In fact, nearly 70 percent of students from diverse economic and cultural backgrounds work while they are enrolled. The difference is, some students are working for extra spending money and others are making sure they can afford to eat. New research from Georgetown University sheds light… Read More

  • Meet Your New Robot Co-Worker

    Meet Your New Robot Co-Worker

    Robots are coming. But this time they aren’t the giant, metal gearheads in “The Terminator,” or the slick, futuristic machines that Will Smith fought off in “I, Robot.” And, as of now, the goal of the machines isn’t to enslave the human race. Instead, they are gunning for jobs. Robots have already transformed manufacturing and… Read More

  • Gender Inequality in STEM and How We Can Solve It

    Gender Inequality in STEM and How We Can Solve It

    As a topic, gender equality in the workplace has gained significant traction in recent years. As a reality, gender equality in the workplace has a long and necessary way to go. Gender inequality in the workforce continues to be an issue around the world, and a new report by a group of international female scientists… Read More

  • Local Organization Finds Solution to Gun Violence

    Local Organization Finds Solution to Gun Violence

    Gun violence today is, undoubtedly, rampant. Despite the fact that the issue directly surrounds the loss of human life, it, like nearly every subject of conversation, has the U.S. polarized. Some people call for stricter gun laws, while others believe the only solution is to put more guns in the hands of people so they… Read More

  • The National Push to Eliminate Hunger on College Campuses

    The National Push to Eliminate Hunger on College Campuses

    The U.S. student debt crisis, which hit a high of $1.5 trillion in the first quarter of 2018, is a common topic for conversation in politics, on campuses and even at the dinner table. Skyrocketing college costs are forcing students to take out loans that put them in debilitating debt for years to come. Students… Read More

  • The National Push to Integrate Women Into STEM Fields

    The National Push to Integrate Women Into STEM Fields

    Women now make up 45.8 percent of the professional U.S. workforce. Unfortunately, while many strides have been taken to integrate women into a broad range of professional occupations, the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) still hold significant gender gaps. But diversity fosters development in every work environment. “Diversity is at the core… Read More

  • Do Emoji Skin Tone Options Help or Hurt Diversity?

    Do Emoji Skin Tone Options Help or Hurt Diversity?

    A range of skin tone options for emojis was first introduced in 2015, leading to fears that the icons, if used inappropriately, would provoke negative racial sentiments online. A recent study by researchers from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, however, has found that emoji skin tone options promote diversity, and not racism, on Twitter.… Read More

  • The 21st Century MBA: Not Profitability or Sustainability, But Both

    The 21st Century MBA: Not Profitability or Sustainability, But Both

    The MBA is generally regarded as a graduate ticket to ride – a door-opener to board rooms, to referral networks and, for many, to the inner sanctum of our business/economic system. Drawing on shared institutional wisdom, vast real-world academic research and transformative case histories, the degree has become a sort of lingua franca, a common… Read More

  • Why Fewer Women Pursue STEM in More Gender-Equal Countries

    Why Fewer Women Pursue STEM in More Gender-Equal Countries

    A recent study reveals a surprising trend — there are fewer women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields in wealthier and more gender-equal countries. The study, conducted by a team of researchers from the University of Missouri and Leeds Beckett University, UK, is published in Psychological Science. The researchers have found that countries… Read More

  • Brief Exposure to Charismatic Career Women Inspires Young Women to Choose Male-Dominated Field

    Brief Exposure to Charismatic Career Women Inspires Young Women to Choose Male-Dominated Field

    Top female college students were more likely to consider majoring in economics when exposed briefly to inspiring and charismatic women in the field, according to an easy and inexpensive study led by Danila Serra, assistant professor of economics at the Southern Methodist University (SMU). The study was funded by the Undergraduate Women in Economics Challenge,… Read More

  • Universities Accepting Bitcoin for Tuition

    Universities Accepting Bitcoin for Tuition

    A handful of universities across the world is currently accepting bitcoin for payments, with Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Switzerland and FPT University in Vietnam being the two most recent additions. They join The King’s College in New York, the University of Nicosia in Cyprus, the University of Cumbria in the UK,… Read More

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