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This article explores the causal relationship between college education within a region and that region's interest in hate-related topics. I utilize Google Trends search data for intolerance-related terms to measure regional interest in intolerance, and an instrumental variable based on the historical assignment of land grant colleges to obtain exogenous variation in cross-regional college-educated population shares. I find that there is a negative correlation between a region's college-educated population share and that region's search activity for intolerance-related terms. This correlation does not translate to a causal relationship, however, as the instrumental variables estimates are found to be small and statistically insignificant. This finding suggests that improving access to college-level education may not be an effective policy tool to combat hateful attitudes and behaviour. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The merging of information technologies through digital transformation has strengthened the potential impacts of technology and education on social and economic development. Today's rapid pace of change and the globalized [...]

This essay will explore the links between power, knowledge, and the discourse of technological virtue in two cases of organizational innovation: the Land Grant College movement of the 1850s and the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) of the 1990s. Both movements can be seen as responses to ontological or spiritual rifts that opened between how we live and how we recognize goodness in ourselves. In the case of Land Grant Colleges, there was a realization that God's gift of an abundant continent upon which to faithfully labor and prosper was being despoiled by labor and prosperity. Scientific agriculture was intended to restore Americans to virtue. The Revolution in Military Affairs likewise might be seen as an attempt to maintain images of virtue under difficult conditions. James Der Derian characterizes virtuous war as a neural network which links virtual technologies, military hardware, entertainment, global surveillance, and information with the ethical imperative to inflict virtuous violence from a distance with minimal American casualties. This essay will explore the question of how public administration might respond to the discourse of virtuous power/knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Self-report data were analyzed from 175 department chairs running Council on Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Education member hospitality and tourism programs in America to understand the nature of their job, perceptions of future trends in hospitality and tourism education, and demographics. Respondents spent greater percentages of their workweeks in teaching-related and departmental administrative roles than in research-related roles by a ratio of 7:1. Technology, distance learning, and senior living turned up as the three factors that would most likely have an impact on hospitality and tourism education in the future. A majority of respondents were Caucasian, middle-aged men with industry experience who had earned master's degrees. Most had been chairs for over 7 years at public, non-land grant, 4-year programs. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]