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Federal Job Applicants Can’t Skip ‘Loyalty Question’ 

New essay questions on many federal job applications, asking candidates how they would advance the Trump administration’s policies, are optional, according to the Office of Personnel Management. But new documents submitted in a lawsuit seeking the removal of these...

Engineering Without The Liberal Arts Is A Broken Machine  

This whole-brain approach to engineering is neither emphasized nor practiced nearly enough. Sure, our school, like any school, supports the idea of exploratory education on paper. UConn regularly boasts about their general education program: an overflowing course...

Leadership Macomb Visits Detroit Arsenal

 A group of leaders from throughout Macomb County were introduced to the county’s defense and aerospace industries April 15 with visits to the U.S. Army’s Detroit Arsenal and General Dynamics Land Systems as part of the Leadership Macomb program. The Detroit...

The Tech Industry Is Applying An Uber-Style ‘Gigification’ Model To Nursing

In the late 2000s, surging unemployment during the financial crash gave rise to the gig economy, later supercharged by the emergence of ride-sharing and food-delivery apps. Almost two decades later, gig work is as big as it’s ever been, and is creeping into one of the...
Storytelling In Mentoring: How To Invest In Women Leaders

According to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report, if economic trends continue as they are “the US will take 208 years to close its gender gap.” If we want to see this rate of change accelerated, we must commit to raising women leaders who can tell...

Nearly 70% Of Gen Z Freelances Or Plans To

Fiverr, a freelance marketplace, recently conducted a study that examined how Gen Z thinks about work and their careers. The study examined how layoffs, technology, and a need for flexibility impact the generation's work preferences. Many Gen Zers are already doing or...

Gig Workers Face New Rule

So ubiquitous is the gig economy in American life that, for many of us, the “taxi” has gone the way of the “tissue.” Just as a “Kleenex” is now the thing we blow our noses into, we now take an “Uber” when we want to go somewhere. And anyone who’s ever ridden in an...

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