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Step by Step: How Towson University Incrementally Transformed Their Graduation with MarchingOrder https://ow.ly/MVY250PPL6h

Step by Step: How Towson University incrementally transformed their graduation with MarchingOrder. https://ow.ly/oTWt50PIRji

Don't be surprised if you see Kennesaw State University or University of Indianapolis follow the lead of Lindenwood to cut athletics opportunities in the coming years. The finances don't add up and there will be a tidal wave of expenses not realized by the leaders at these institutions. Analysis on KSU, UIndy: https://lnkd.in/gZEQrgKW Or for that matter, University of Southern Indiana. Analysis on USI: https://lnkd.in/g_KPQGZG University of Delaware are you paying attention? Of course they aren't. As of 2019, Delaware operated on 87% subsidy from students and the institution. Athletics is generating only 13% of its own revenue to pay its bills, and wants to move to CUSA and DI-FBS? Unwise financial decision that will lead to cuts in the near future. It costs MORE to move up a division than the new money raised. Always.

Go Blue! Joel. I remember this like it was yesterday. Beautiful sunny Ann Arbor spring day and such joy. It’s great to be a Michigan Wolverine! The Walter Cronkite speech was fairly realistic given the status of the US economy and the world. He told us to stay at Michigan. Mr. Cronkite talked about the “megaproblems that we face:” 1. The population explosion, 2. Pollution, 3. Depletion of natural resources (including food and energy), and 4. Atomic proliferation. “It is hardly necessary to expand on these items for a group of Michigan graduates -- * you know that the world population will double by the time you are fifty and will almost double again by the time you sit here to watch your grandchildren graduate; and almost 90 percent of that growth will be in the already poor, starving, underdeveloped lands. * You know that our blind devotion to immediate profit instead of future security continues to poison the water we drink and the air we breathe and threatens the entire food chain at its source. * You know that, because of mismanagement, we are running out of fuel and arable land and dozens of vitalminerals and metals. * You know that experts count a score of nations on the threshold of nuclear energy, and its by-products of bomb-grade material. * Hanging heavily over us is the thought of atomic bombs in the hands of the Khadaffis and Khomeinis of our world. These are problems that will not wait much longer for solution. Among the more pessimistic of our scientists there is the gloomy assessment that we already may have passed the point of no return on one or all of them. Well, I should think that is a proposition that at least you would want to test.” Still even more relevant today! "It's up to you," said Walter Cronkite, “to help and to lead the inevitable social, political, and economic revolution which our magnificent technological revolution forces upon us. "But don't despair, you, of all people, are up to it." https://lnkd.in/g3fYs_t9

Step by Step: How Towson University Incrementally Transformed Their Graduation with MarchingOrder https://ow.ly/WFgT50PVGQX

Link to list. It's actually a decent list, as the top 10 is hard to argue with, though you can quibble with it naturally (eg, Morgantown doesn't belong in the top 100, let alone top 20 IMO 😀). https://lnkd.in/e8_5K94k

Interested in psychology but don't want to do clinical? Not sure what you can do with a B.A. or B.S. in psych? Come check out the 'other side' of careers in psychology! We will have multiple open houses and information events coming up soon! #iopsychology #iopsych #MAinIO #IOMADegree

The new MCAST Link (Issue 67) is dedicated to the College's pursuit of excellence. One of the articles feature my Fulbright journey at Ohio State University in the US. Read it here: https://lnkd.in/dB_YUear

Interested in psychology but don't want to do clinical? Not sure what you can do with a B.A. or B.S. in psych? Come check out the 'other side' of careers in psychology! We will have multiple open houses and information events coming up soon! #iopsychology #iopsych #MAinIO #IOMADegree