Month: March 2014
Guest post by Mike Gesker “Well, it was the Mardi Gras. It was New Year’s Eve and it was the 4th of July all wrapped into one. I never remember during my time in Baltimore a more joyous occasion.” That’s the way the venerable sports reporter John Steadman recalled the gala celebration of April 15,…
By Dean Smith, director, Project MUSE During a snowstorm in the early morning hours of March 29, 1984, fifteen Mayflower moving vans arrived at Baltimore Colts headquarters in Owings Mills. Marcia Luria, on her way to work at WCBM radio station, saw the convoy of trucks headed down Reisterstown Road. “I got in and called…
Guest Post by Annemarie Goldstein Jutel Putting a name to an illness is as much a social task as it is a medical one. The pursuit of diagnosis is often the reason we choose to seek medical attention (“What’s wrong with me, doctor?”). It separates the lay person from the professional (doctors diagnose, lay people…
Guest Post by April M. Zeoli, PhD, MPH, and Shannon Frattaroli, PhD The phrase “mass shooting” calls to mind the recent and highly publicized tragedies of Newtown, Aurora, and Tucson. However, according to Mayors Against Illegal Guns, 40% of the mass shootings that occurred between January 2009 and January 2013 involved a perpetrator killing his…
Never ones to shy away from taking a cue from others, we asked several experts on higher education to comment on NPR’s ongoing series, Paying for College. Today's installment features John V. Lombardi, author of How Universities Work, on why the cost of higher education to students and families continues to grow and what the…
Never ones to shy away from taking a cue from others, we asked several experts on higher education to comment on NPR’s ongoing series, Paying for College. Today's installment features John V. Lombardi, author of How Universities Work, on why the cost of higher education to students and families continues to grow and what the…
Guest post by Laura W. Perna The NPR segment “How the Cost of College Went from Affordable to Sky-High,” which was broadcast on March 18, 2014, touched on a number of important issues pertaining to the financing of higher education. Particularly problematic are the implications of declining college affordability for the economic and social stratification of our…
Recently, NPR’s Morning Edition featured a segment entitled “How the cost of college went from affordable to sky high.” For background, the story’s reporter turned to higher education scholar and author John Thelin. To continue the discussion, we asked Professor Thelin a few quick questions about higher education costs and how to deal with them. Q: How…
Today is the fifth and final in a series of brief podcast excerpts from The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for People Who Have Alzheimer Disease, Related Dementias, and Memory Loss. This bestselling title by Nancy L. Mace, M.A., and Peter V. Rabins, M.D., M.P.H., is in its fifth edition and is now available…
Today is the fifth and final in a series of brief podcast excerpts from The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for People Who Have Alzheimer Disease, Related Dementias, and Memory Loss. This bestselling title by Nancy L. Mace, M.A., and Peter V. Rabins, M.D., M.P.H., is in its fifth edition and is now available…