When Parwinder Grewal, then-president of Vermont State University, announced his plan in February 2023 to eliminate most of the physical books from the state college system’s libraries and switch to an all-digital library, students, faculty and staff described his decision in many ways, none of them flattering: “shocking,” “embarrassing,” “surreal,” “patriarchal” “ableist” and “a joke,” to …
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Student Film Documents Failed Plan to Cut Books From Vermont State University Libraries
When Parwinder Grewal, then-president of Vermont State University, announced his plan in February 2023 to eliminate most of the physical books from the state college system’s libraries and switch to an all-digital library, students, faculty and staff described his decision in many ways, none of them flattering: “shocking,” “embarrassing,” “surreal,” “patriarchal” “ableist” and “a joke,” to …
Shogan Discusses “Pursuit of Happiness” with Author Jeffrey Rosen
The following is a press release issued by the (U.S.) National Archives and Records Administration: Classical Greek and Roman thinkers exerted a profound influence on America’s Founders, according to Jeffrey Rosen, author of “The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America.” Enlarge President of the …