Round-up: Banned books, jobs, and fighting prostitution
A busy week for experts at The University of Toledo:
Dr. Paulette Kilmer, professor of communication, organized (as she has for many years) a stirring reminder this year that freedoms not passionately defended have the habit of disappearing:
Dr. Terribeth Gordon-Moore, associate dean in the College of Business Administration pointed out that even in a tough economy, there are jobs for students -- but students need to start planning for success years before they walk the stage at graduation:
Also on the topic of jobs, Larry Burns, vice president for external affairs and interim vice president for diversity, spoke to Channel 24 about the recently created Minority Business Incubator. It was also highlighted in the Toledo Free Press.
And Celia Williamson, UT associate professor of social work, helped coordinate and lead the international 6th Annual Conference on Prostitution, Sex Work and Human Trafficking:
Jon Strunk is UT’s media relations manager, a graduate of UT’s College of Arts and Sciences, a student in its College of Business Administration and a man constantly wary of his cell phone ringing. With the media having only so much space and so much time to tell a story, Jon has reserved this space on the World Wide Web to highlight, analyze, complain, lobby, beg, apologize and comment on media coverage of UT, higher education and, from time to time, his half-hearted quest to replace his ’96 Mercury Sable.