Round-Table with Secretary Duncan

Friday morning Secretary of Education Arne Duncan met with 15 college presidents of HSIs (Hispanic Serving Institutions) at the HACU national conference in Chicago. As president of Wilbur Wright College, I joined in the hour-long discussion. The Secretary’s aim was to ask for feedback about President Obama’s plan for college affordability. It was the first of many sessions Duncan expects to hold…

Humans and Imaginary Vulcans

Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow is an important book, well deserving of its Wikipedia page. Kahneman, along with his late partner Amos Tversky, won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences even though the pair are psychologists. They have a genius for creative experimentation. The book is a high-level summation of their research, along with…

Heroism One Tap at a Time

Retired Major General John L. Borling of the USAF gave an address at Wright College last night. A long-time resident of Chicago, General Borling talked about his extraordinary life with students, faculty, staff and members of the community through the lens of his book, Taps on the Wall: Poems from the Hanoi Hilton. It was…