June 1, 2018
One should aspire to and pursue one’s dreams and goals. Recently, I was pleased to see that David A. Longanecker, one of my top bosses and a national leader in higher education, has achieved his goal of becoming a truck driver, a goal he had articulated for many years.
May 22, 2018
Last week, Jenny Cavnar became the first woman since 1993 to do televised play-by-play on a Major League Baseball telecast of the game between the Colorado Rockies and the San Diego Padres. Her usual role was pre-and postgame TV shows.
April 25, 2018
Last fall, viewing professional football games, I watched a commercial for Modelo Especial featuring Tony Gonzalez, one of the greatest receivers in the history of the National Football League. In the ad, Gonzalez, now a national TV analyst, celebrates 40 years of family dinners with his mother, who worked two jobs to raise and support the family.
February 26, 2018
Jim Petersen, TV analyst for the Minnesota Timberwolves, sometimes references the Minnesota Lynx during broadcasts. He refers to Lynx point guard Lindsay Whalen as “greatness.” Petersen should know because he was an assistant Lynx coach for nine years after his college and NBA careers. He states that Whalen is one of Minnesota’s all-time great athletes.
November 6, 2017
Monday, October 16, was a glorious fall day in the Twin Cities with temperatures in the high 60s. As I walked on the sidewalk parallel to Ramsey County Highway 96 in Vadnais Heights, I was in awe of the radiant colors—yellow, red, orange, green—highlighted by the late-afternoon sun. But I enjoyed more than fall beauty. I found four golf balls, pushing my season total to 62, possibly a record.
October 2, 2017
My first job in journalism after college was as a copy editor for a newspaper in southern California. Despite having negative stereotypes of copy editors, I quickly learned that a copy editor fulfills an important, sometimes thankless, role in ensuring accuracy, clarity, and quality of a publication’s content. Copy editing has been a key part of my life.
September 11, 2017
Each August, The Chronicle of Higher Education publishes its Almanac with data on many aspects of the nation’s multibillion-dollar effort to educate 20 million undergraduate and graduate students. The 2017-18 issue includes 80 tables of data on college faculty members and administrators, students, and finances. Also included are summaries of data on each state and a national summary of these data.
September 6, 2017
It’s not surprising that public trust in government remains near historic lows. Only 20 percent of Americans say they trust the government in Washington to do what is right, according to the Pew Research Center
September 2, 2017
Twelve years ago, I posed the possibility to my son, Ian, that he try running as a fall sport as he started his high-school career at Mounds View High School. I brought him to Mounds View on an August day in 2005; we entered the school, not knowing where to go. A short, non-descript man came by and said, “Wrestling gym.” Even though my oldest daughter knew some of the athletes on his championship track teams, I didn’t have a clue about this man…little did I know.
August 24, 2017
The Minnesota School of Business and Globe University (MSB/Globe) are still fighting adverse court decisions almost a year after a district court found that they engaged in consumer fraud and deceptive trade practices by misrepresenting the job opportunities available for their criminal-justice graduates.