The Politics of Environmental Dispute Resolution

Also PCMA Working Paper #17.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51148/1/380.pd

Episode 01: The Future of Liberal Arts Education with Lawrence Bacow

Welcome to the first episode of Conversations Beneath the Cupola with host Gettysburg College President Robert Iuliano. With an extensive career in higher education, Iuliano has been in positions of administrative leadership and has been a professor at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. In this episode of Conversations Beneath the Cupola podcast, Iuliano has invited Lawrence Bacow, Harvard University’s 29th president. Bacow has extensive experience in higher education and has held his current position since 2018. Aside from this, Bacow’s career experience with teaching and educational leaders spans three decades. As Iuliano and Bacow get into the interview, Bacow notes that the view of higher education has changed, where it is more common to consider higher education as an investment and less as education. Skepticism of higher education has risen and public support for higher education has fallen due to unreasonable costs, left-leaning bias, and self-aggrandizing focus. However, regardless of naysayers, Bacow underscores the role of a liberal arts education in teaching students to master critical reasoning skills, an invaluable skillset for all aspects of life. Bacow shares his insights into the cost of higher education. He mentions that it is important to address this issue. In addition, there is pressure to make sure that stakeholders’ desires are seen to. These desires include curriculum design, setting a right price, transferring the right skill sets, enabling services for students, and the like. One important aspect that needs to be maintained is making sure to represent the different opinions across the societal and political spectrum. At the end of this episode, Bacow shares final advice and his impressions from Inauguration weekend at Gettysburg College. Subscribe to our podcast and listen to the full episode to hear the entirety of these thoughts and insights into the future of liberal arts education

Facility siting and public opposition

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A Case Study of the Photovoltaic Industry

Efforts to reduce global carbon emissions have led to calls for increased use of renewable energy technologies for electricity generation. These technologies are, for the most part, not yet cost competitive with traditional methods of generation. Solar, or photovoltaics (PV), is one of the most popular renewable energy technologies, but it is widely believed that further advances in the technology are necessary to enable it to be cost competitive for utilities. Indeed, public resources continue to be spent towards this end. This paper presents a detailed look at the technological and policy history of the development of photovoltaics in the United States. The primary conclusion is that, while photovoltaics have not yet been widely commercialized for utility-scale electricity generation, supply-push policies such as publicly funded research and development (R&D) have been successful and have generated numerous important innovations. Furthermore, government R&D efforts have been successful in avoiding some of the problems associated with public sector commercial technology development programs. Nonetheless, this thesis proposes a number of recommendations as to how to further improve the federal PV R&