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The day and a half it takes to get from New York to Singapore and back offers plenty of time to ponder the economics of ultra-long-haul flights – and wonder why we’d want to make it any longer.
Universities teach students and produce research – but do they have responsibility to engage with the communities that surround them? Two university presidents explain why their answer is an emphatic yes.
With the Holocaust still on their mind, many American Jews were highly sensitive to portrayals of Jews in popular culture. So when Roth’s sex-obsessed characters came along, the pushback was swift.
Romero’s ‘Night of the Living Dead’ and ‘Dawn of the Dead’ will be remembered among the first films to use horror as a form of political critique.
If Americans are hiding behind the explosion of diversity to avoid looking at racism, what can universities do about it? A lot.
The fashionistas aren’t flocking there yet but things are happening in Brick City – especially when it comes to education policy.
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Chancellor, Rutgers University - Newark
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Professor, The Levin College of Public Affairs and Education, Cleveland State University
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Associate Professor of Markets, Public Policy and Law, Boston University
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Professor of Comparative and World Literature, Director, Program in Jewish Culture and Society, Director, Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, Memory Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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President, West Virginia University
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Lecturer of Arts, Culture & Media, Rutgers University - Newark
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Associate Professor of Political Science, West Virginia University
