Daily news reports highlight areas of our society on which we should have focused well before disaster struck: HEALTH CARE: the heroic efforts of thousands of healthcare workers cannot fill the gaps we have accepted for decades: uninsured and under-insured families; the high costs of hospitalization and prescription drugs; the evident imbalance between ever more … Continue reading “Coronavirus: an opportunity to change course.”

From coast to coast, colleagues at different types of institutions report struggles as they adapt pedagogies, supporting materials, and communication with students to distance teaching. These reports bring back memories of the mid-1990s. In 19944-1995, a bipartisan group of governors in the Mountain West came togethet to envision the future of their respective states. They … Continue reading “Reflections on missed opportunities.”