by Barry Fagin | Aug 1, 2011 | Business & Economics, Society & Culture, Technology & Futurism
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 12-28-06} My son came home from college last week. Due to the storm, his flight was 48 hours late. My wife and I threw our exhausted arms around him at midnight, three tiny drops in a sea of people at DIA. John Lennon once...
by Barry Fagin | Aug 8, 2011 | Education, Society & Culture
{Colorado Springs Gazette, 8-24-06} My son has lived with me for one hundred sixty-two thousand, five hundred and twenty-eight hours. We’re now down to the last forty-eight. Along with thousands of eighteen-year-olds around the country, he’ll head off to college this...
by Barry Fagin | Nov 26, 2012 | Philosophy & Ethics, Society & Culture
{Colorado Springs Gazette, 2012-11-14. Editor’s Note: Barry Fagin recently won The Colorado Professor of the Year award.} “Why are you teaching at a military academy?” For people who are supposed to be smart, professors ask stupid questions. I’ve presented...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jul 4, 2011 | Politics & Law, Society & Culture
Below are summations regarding the 235th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence for the United States of America. The first is from the UK Telegraph, and the second is from RealClearPolitics, a site I am not familiar with but come across now and then. They...
by Christina E Stock | Nov 16, 2011 | Education, Politics & Law
While our generation of college students has skyrocketed in terms of attendance and graduation rates, job security is one phrase that has slowly dwindled from our vocabulary. Now, even with a bachelors degree, the job market holds less and less promise for those...
