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My latest book reveals some of the most intimate secrets of people associated with colleges and universities.  Titled College Talk: Interviews with 300 People from Academia, this book is an anthology of interviews conducted by me with people associated with higher education.  Participants include Nobel Prize winners, professors, students, donors, and even alumni from many prestigious academic institutions.

During the last two decades, I had the opportunity to interview hundreds of people from those institutions, revealing a great deal of diversity in academic experiences.  They talk about how they became interested in their academic fields, some of the most extraordinary experiences they have had, and how they pass on their students their

This nearly 600-page book is a compendium of the most revealing of those interviews and always accompanied by pictures.  These interviews conducted for radio and TV shows titled “College Talk” were later summarized in newspaper articles.  These articles have been updated and collected for this book.

“If the general public currently suffers from amnesia about who faculty are and what they do, then spending time with this volume is a much-needed therapy to assuage anxieties and promote a renewed embrace of importance of faculty work for the creation of an educated citizenry,” wrote Dr. Larry LaFond, English professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, and who wrote the preface.

The book also includes an article Dr. Romero wrote about being a college professor as well as four obituaries he wrote about academic colleagues he knew very well and whose careers were cut short by an untimely death.

The book is available through Amazon.

I am proposing a new way to look at cave communities. The title is:

Hypogean Communities as Cybernetic Systems: Implications for the Evolution of Cave Biotas. 

Higher education has faced a great number of challenges in the last few years that include, but are not limited to, financial woes, bad press, ethnic and gender conflicts, legal conflicts, student debt, demographic tests, technological transformations, and leadership fiascoes. These challenges have been further aggravated by the current COVID-19 pandemic. Although other books have dealt with some of these issues, the authors take a longer view of the problems and contextualizes them into what they call “institutional failures.” Their basic premise is that there is a widespread dysfunction at both leadership and management levels in higher education. Despite all these challenges, most of these institutions have been able to survive because they have been isolated from society as a whole; yet, this same insularity has induced bad habits and carry on behaviors that are threatening their very existence. They illustrate these failures by using either well publicized cases and others we have had access to confidentially while providing solutions to those problems.

The book is available through Amazon at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08L41BCYM

I just published a chapter on creativity in my new book “Leonardo’s Children: Stories on Creativity by Fine Arts Leaders that will Blow your Mind.” published by the International Council of Fine Arts Deans (ICFAD). You can read it here: 1083.Leonardo’s Children 2

On Friday, March 22, 2019, at noon I will be giving a presentation at the University of Wisconsin – Whitewater, about the extinction of pearl oyster beds off the coasts of Cubagua, Venezuela, in the early sixteenth century (see attachment).  Everybody is welcomed.

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