September 11, 2017

Chronicle of Higher Education 2017-18 Almanac Provides Wealth of Information on Students, Faculty, and Finances

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.

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September 2, 2017

Hall-of-Fame Coach Fleming Models Respect, Earns Respect

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.

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August 10, 2017

I Love the Lynx

With the start of August, the media are saturated with coverage of the Vikings training camp and the inaugural Gopher football season of Coach P.J. Fleck. Yet the biggest sports story that should not be ignored is the ongoing success of the Minnesota Lynx basketball team.

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June 30, 2017

Free Throws Are a Given: Don’t Give Them Away

When I was in seventh grade, I entered my junior high school’s free-throw contest. Entrants shot 25 free throws and then, based on their total made, were seeded for match play competition—best of ten. In both seventh and eighth grades, I won the school championship. In ninth grade, I set the school record by swishing 25 straight shots in qualifying—but I was upset in match play.

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