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Sports betting contracts should be rethought (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

23 article in The New York Times , “ How College and Sports-Betting Companies ‘Caesarized’ Campus Life ,” which chronicled how universities have signed lucrative contracts with sports betting companies to promote online gambling to their students and campus communities. Nowhere has this been more evident than in a Nov.

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Moving Right Along to Improve Mood and Memory

The Scholarly Teacher

Mark Tarnopolsky, a genetic metabolic neurologist at McMaster University, said that “if there were a drug that could do for human health everything that exercise can, it would likely be the most valuable pharmaceutical ever developed” (Oaklander, 2016, para. Impact of Exercising on the Brain. Erickson et al. Zakrajsek, 2022). References.

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EdTech Malaise: “He Not Busy Born is Busy Dying”

eLiterate

Pivots to corporate learning and development haven’t produced many great successes (although they have enabled some start-ups that would have folded to scrape along). Last year, nearly half of all EdTech funding went to one company —BYJU’S—which is now struggling to make its debt payments. The start-up picture is brutal.

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Tennessee State cites past underfunding as cause of problems

Confessions of a Community College Dean

At stake is local control of an institution in a state that has admitted to years of inequitable funding for its only public historically Black college. Along with Glover, who has led Tennessee State since 2013, the university’s current trustees also addressed lawmakers.