Part-time faculty employed by institutions of higher education as a percentage of total institutional faculty increased in the last decades. This trend is attributed to several factors such as costs, competition, and a desire for staffing flexibility. Increased reliance on part-time faculty,...

The primary purpose of the Federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is to provide federal agency records and information to the public and thereby open the inner workings of federal government to public review. Although the goal of open government is certainly laudable, it can have unintended...

The law, as a regulatory mechanism, has always struggled to keep up with technological advances. With the rapidly increasing technological advances related to the Internet, this struggle has been magnified exponentially. It would be foolish, then, to expect to find a perfect solution to all of...

Few principles influence success as fundamentally as truth. Truthfulness is the foundation upon which human relationships are built. Truth is the antecedent to trust and trust is the antecedent to cooperation. Without truth, sustainable success is impossible in human dealings. Hence, the...

During 2016, Wells Fargo was under intense scrutiny for creating false customer accounts, a scandal stemming from an organizational culture heavily focused on revenue generation and a lack of focus on customer loyalty and satisfaction. The Dynamic Organization Model (DOM) provides leaders with a...

Recently published evidence of limited learning among American college students confirms the damage done when students, faculty, and institutions pursue interests that conflict with the educational process. The ‘disengagement compact' in which faculty tacitly trade lenient workloads and...

In an effort to protect schoolchildren from sacrificing their health for steroid-induced athletic grandeur, some states have experimented with laws implementing suspicionless drug testing of student athletes. These laws leave open several avenues for legal challenges to be brought through the...

Bribery, climate change, corporate ethics, corruption, diversity, drug addiction, free speech, LGTBQ rights, gender equality, globalization, impact of smart phones on youth (and former youth), innovation, lying, privacy, racism, sustainability, sexism and sexual harassment, and truth telling;...

The digitization of information has transformed how colleges and universities function. Professors teach and students learn in a digital environment where virtual classrooms, online course management systems, and digitized content have become the norm. Electronic reserves are the fulcrum of this...