by Amy E. Slaton | Dec 16, 2009 | Higher Ed, Policy
As Obama inches toward implementing his job creation schemes, we hear a lot about the jobs that will be created through federally supported “green” initiatives, including those in retro-fitting and weatherizing buildings. Folks who can afford it can...
by Amy E. Slaton | Dec 16, 2009 | Higher Ed, Science Studies
Several excellent essays describing engineers as educators with social values and ideological commitments–left, right, and center–appear in the latest Technology and Culture. This journal, for those who don’t know it, may sound narrowly academic but...
by Amy E. Slaton | Dec 1, 2009 | Policy
The content of an article in today’s New York Times, In Job Hunt, College Degree Can’t Close Racial Gap, by Michael Luo, will surprise no one who has thought about the role of race in American hiring; only a handful of the hundreds of comments posted...
