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05 January

2011: Financial Recovery

  • Posted by Oscar J. Mayorga
  • Categories News, News Homepage, Surveys, Uncategorized

Two long-standing U.S. institutions ended their work in 2011: NASA Space Shuttle Program and the Oprah Winfrey Show. NASA’s 30-year running space shuttle program ended with Endeavor’s final trip to the international space station. Despite the tragedies of the Challenger …

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22 December

2010: Politics and Policy

  • Posted by Oscar J. Mayorga
  • Categories News, News Homepage, Surveys

The year 2010 started with a devastating 7.0 earthquake in Haiti that resulted in the death of approximately 220,000- 316,000 people and billions of dollars in property and infrastructure damage. Later that year, another disaster – this one human-made – …

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15 December

2009: Same-Sex Marriage and Political Dissent

  • Posted by Oscar J. Mayorga
  • Categories News, News Homepage, Surveys

The sixth installment of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter movie franchise ‐ the Half-Blood Prince was released in 2009. In the Half-Blood Prince, we say farewell to Hogwarts Headmaster Albus Dumbledore and are in disbelief by the betrayal of Severus Snape. …

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08 December

2008: The Great Recession and the Election of Obama

  • Posted by Oscar J. Mayorga
  • Categories News, News Homepage, Surveys

In 2008, great changes occurred in the United States and globally, including the election of Barack Obama and the Great Recession. Most of the media attention regarding the great recession did not begin in earnest until the fall of 2008. …

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01 December

2007: Helicopter Parents and Gun Control

  • Posted by Oscar J. Mayorga
  • Categories News, News Homepage, Surveys

  The phenomenon of helicopter parents rose to national consciousness in 2007, raising questions about students’ self-reliance and independence. News stories focused on the role of parents throughout multiple stages of the college going process: from making the decision to …

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24 November

2006: The decline of newspapers and the rise of helicopter parents

  • Posted by Oscar J. Mayorga
  • Categories News, News Homepage, Surveys, Uncategorized

In 2006, among the many news stories of that time was the beginning of the decline of print newspapers.  The media reported on the declining readership of newspapers and how they would disappear in a few years. Others reported how …

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17 November

2005: Grade Inflation, SAT Redesign, Hurricane Katrina and the Armed Forces

  • Posted by Joseph Ramirez
  • Categories News, News Homepage, Surveys

In 2005, one of the most intense and deadliest storms in United States history made landfall when Hurricane Katrina struck Florida and Louisiana in the final days of August. Colleges and universities, including Tulane University, were forced to close their …

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12 November

2004: New Leadership for the Higher Education Research Institute and New Items about Community Service

  • Posted by Joseph Ramirez
  • Categories News, News Homepage, Surveys

In 2004, the launch of a new social networking website thefacebook.com began as a small-scale, dorm room project, an innovation that changed the way hundreds of millions of people connect and communicate with each other. SpaceShipOne, the first privately-funded spacecraft …

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04 November

2003: The Meaning and Purpose in Life as War, Disease, and Outer Space Dominate Headlines

  • Posted by Joseph Ramirez
  • Categories News, News Homepage, Surveys

Amidst protests and anti-war demonstrations, the Iraq War began in March of 2003. With twenty-four hour news channels and new communication technologies, images and videos of the war were quickly and widely circulated. Around the same time, a deadly respiratory …

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28 October

2002: International Learning in an Era of Globalization

  • Posted by Joseph Ramirez
  • Categories News, News Homepage, Surveys

As debates about globalization persisted, 2002 was marked with various international developments which brought countries and people closer together. For example, the African Union was established with its headquarters in Ethiopia in order to advance continental cooperation, replacing the Organisation …

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