Are We Teaching More Now and Educating Men Less?

In recent years there has been an increasing concern on the part of those in veterinary education with the status of our schools and with the need for a change in their methods. This increasing introspective trend has been evidenced on our own campus in the past year by a successful conference on undergraduate education involving the entire faculty, by the Dean\u27s academic review, and by the reactivation of a student committee on curriculum evaluation

Political Mediation and American Old-Age Security Exceptionalism

Debates over America’s heavy reliance on employer-provided private pensions have understated the profound role organized labor played after World War II. Archival evidence from prominent unions and business associations suggests that the shift in organized labor’s strategy after the New Deal toward electoral activity helps explain critical interventions by Northern Democrats into the system of private pensioning in the postwar period that laid the foundation for America’s old-age security system. Such a strategy was insufficient, however, to expand Social Security. This article offers a political mediation account of electoral activity as a source of labor influence on social policy that draws on political institutionalist and class power theories