After nine days off for spring break, students will trudge back to classes today, on the heels of a heart-breaking basketball loss, just in time to be hit with a barrage of midterms. And that beautiful, sunny weather we had this past weekend? Gone, replaced by a relentless drizzle
Well, look on the bright side. You might be able to stay on your parents’ health insurance until age 26. That’s worth something, right?
Here’s what happening:
- In between designing the university’s new general education program and investigating the campus’ links to slavery, history professor Ira Berlin somehow found the time to write a book that The New York Times calls “majestic.”
- You are apparently a lot like the Maryland General Assembly, The Washington Post’s John Wagner writes:
The Maryland General Assembly is a little like a college kid, partying and procrastinating through much of the semester until it hits home that finals are just around the corner. That seems to be the case again this year, perhaps to an even greater degree than usual. The reasons for that aren’t exactly clear — the parties certainly haven’t been any better.
Wagner said this as explaining why, with three weeks left until the end of the legislative session, “virtually no bill of consequence has made it to the governor yet.”
- A report by the American Association of University Women says bias is the largest barrier to women’s success in math and science is cultural bias, contra Larry Summers.
- Nationally, salaries for mid-level college administrators held steady over the past year, the first without an increase since 1998, The Chronicle of Higher Education reports.
Quick Hits
- Maryland lawmakers have – in a very unofficial way – moved the state from the South to the Northeast.
- College freshman are much more supportive of gay marriage than the nation as a whole.