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Daily Register: Stephens Gave MLK Day Speech on Idlewild

The Daily Register reports that Dr. Ronald Stephens, Associate Professor of African American Studies in the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University, was the guest speaker at the Paint Creek Regular Baptist Church in Gallipolis on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Stephens, an associate professor of African American Studies at Ohio University, […]

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January 30, 2014 at 6:55 pmFaculty in the News In the News

WOUB: Vedder Says Raising Minimum Wage Could Impact Student Employees

WOUB quoted Dr. Richard Vedder, Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University’s College of Arts & Sciences, in a story following President Barack Obama’s State of the Union pitch for a nearly 40 percent increase to the national minimum wage. “Economist of all stripes […]

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January 30, 2014 at 4:49 pmFaculty in the News In the News

Richard Vedder & Christopher Denhart: How the College Bubble Will Pop

Dr. Richard Vedder and Ohio University alum Christopher Denhart published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on Jan. 8. Vedder is Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University. Denhart earned a B.S. in Economics from Ohio University’s College of […]

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Messenger: Fogt Says ‘We Lucked Out’ With Rain

Messenger: Fogt Says ‘We Lucked Out’ With Rain

“This is the coldest we’ve seen it in two decades,” Dr. Ryan Fogt, Assistant Professor of Meteorology at Ohio University and Director of the Scalia Laboratory for Atmospheric Analysis, told Athens Messenger reporter Susan Tebben in a Jan. 6 article. Windchill is the biggest factor in preparing for going out […]

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January 7, 2014 at 8:26 amFaculty in the News In the News

GoLocal Quotes Vedder in Community College Finance Article

A GoLocal article on Community College of Rhode Island finances quotes Dr. Richard Vedder, Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University’s College of Arts & Sciences. Dr. Richard Vedder, who is the Director of the Center for College Affordability and […]

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December 10, 2013 at 9:33 amFaculty in the News In the News

New American Quotes Mda on Mandela Contradictions

New American Quotes Mda on Mandela Contradictions

A column by Alex Newman in the New American  quotes from a New York Times Dec. 6 column by Dr. Zakes Mda, Professor of Creative Writing in the English Department at Ohio University. “It is ironic that in today’s South Africa, there is an increasingly vocal segment of black South […]

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December 10, 2013 at 9:08 amFaculty in the News In the News

France 24 Quotes Kendhammer Post on Boko Haram Finances

France 24 Quotes Kendhammer Post on Boko Haram Finances

France 24 quotes a Twitter post by Dr. Brandon Kendhammer, Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Ohio University College of Arts & Sciences, in a story about the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram, recently designated a terrorist organization by the United States. Very little is known about the finances […]

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December 10, 2013 at 7:58 amFaculty in the News In the News