YSU Doesn't Have a Financial Problem—It has a Priority Problem

A Foolish Consistency
August 10, 2014

[Note: An earlier version of this post mistakenly listed the cost of cell phones at $175,000. The actual number is $17,500. Also, it is 44% of overhead lights and not 48% that require replacing.]

In 1939 Robert Hutchins, then president of the University of Chicago made what many would see as a radical move. He abolished the football . . .

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YSU Doesn't Have a Financial Problem—It has a Priority Problem

A Foolish Consistency
August 10, 2014

[Note: An earlier version of this post mistakenly listed the cost of cell phones at $175,000. The actual number is $17,500. Also, it is 44% of overhead lights and not 48% that require replacing.]

In 1939 Robert Hutchins, then president of the University of Chicago made what many would see as a radical move. He abolished the football . . .

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Administration, Athletics, and Sacred Cows

A Foolish Consistency
September 25, 2013

In the next few weeks and months Youngstown State is going to be making decisions that will dramatically affect its future. It is convenient to characterize these decisions as strictly financial. Youngstown State is currently facing somewhere around a $6 million deficit. How the University chooses to deal with this deficit is not only an . . .

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Administration, Athletics, and Sacred Cows

A Foolish Consistency
September 25, 2013

In the next few weeks and months Youngstown State is going to be making decisions that will dramatically affect its future. It is convenient to characterize these decisions as strictly financial. Youngstown State is currently facing somewhere around a $6 million deficit. How the University chooses to deal with this deficit is not only an . . .

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Fracking Common Sense

A Foolish Consistency
September 16, 2013

The following is an article by myself and several members of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at YSU on the issue of fracking, jobs, and the purpose of a university.

Fracking common sense

By Deborah Mower, Mark Vopat, Alan Tomhave and Michael Jerryson

The Jambar.com

Published: Wednesday, September . . .

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Fracking Common Sense

A Foolish Consistency
September 16, 2013

The following is an article by myself and several members of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at YSU on the issue of fracking, jobs, and the purpose of a university.

Fracking common sense

By Deborah Mower, Mark Vopat, Alan Tomhave and Michael Jerryson

The Jambar.com

Published: Wednesday, September . . .

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Conversion Therapy - Letter to the Akron Beacon Journal

A Foolish Consistency
September 05, 2013

Pop quiz. What do the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Counseling Association, American Psychiatric Association, American Psychological Association, American Academy of Pediatrics Pan American Health Organization (the North and South American branch of the World Health Organization), National Association of Social Workers, and former . . .

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