The Phoenix has asked me to discuss Rebecca Chopp’s presidency from the perspective of the economics of the College and my interactions with her. Before I get to that, let me briefly say that overall I thought Rebecca did a very good
Rebecca Chopp was the first college president to ever respond to a fossil fuel divestment campaign. Before the movement exploded into more than 500 campaigns worldwide, before Desmond Tutu, Jon Huntsman and many others endorsed the international movement, President Chopp set the
About the time I graduated from Swarthmore College in 1967, Joni Mitchell penned and sang a song entitled “Big Yellow Taxi”, which has since been re-recorded by about 360 artists. The famous lyric in the song we all know: “Don’t it all