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The Big Ten Conference is a major U.S. collegiate athletic conference founded in the Midwest USA in 1896 that is famous for its strong sports programs, especially football. Since mid-November 2025, about 55% of all online mentions of the “Big Ten” conference have been football-related. This includes numerous articles on Indiana University’s historic football success in [...]
“Manifest destiny” is the romanticized 19th-century term describing the goal of American westward expansion to the Pacific Ocean. The term became popular after the Lewis and Clark Expedition traveled from the Midwest to what is now called Oregon and Washington on the West Coast. Collegiate sports conferences, such as the Big Ten (B1G), a league [...]
Mark Imfeld, Director of Strategic Partner Development for the Association for Supply Chain Management, recently reported that the logistics economy represents the largest industrial sector in the American economy, employing approximately 6 million people, and is the only industry realizing growth over pre-COVID periods. He went on to state that within the next 5 years, [...]
A joint study by the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) and the Latino Donor Collaborative (LDC) reported that Hispanics earning Technology- and Engineering-related bachelor’s degrees in America rose from 11.4% in 2018 to 13.6% in 2021, while also noting that a whopping 10.9 million total job openings will be available in those fields by [...]
The concept of Open Educational Resources (OER) lies in the spirit of public domain, or the availability of intellectual property. The public domain statute in the US offers books free to the public with no copyrights associated if they were published 96 years ago or earlier. OER initiatives advocate for access and transparency of published [...]
Universities in the Big Ten conference, the oldest and most influential collegiate athletics league in the world, also comprise the Big Ten Academic Alliance, a collaborative student-centric society and scholastic-focused coalition formed in 1958. Alliance member institutions contribute to the common educational good, such as shared access to a digital library system that constitutes the largest single pool of [...]
Forging a new era of realignment in the college athletics landscape, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) joined the Big Ten athletic conference in 1990, becoming the 11th member institution. The name of the conference was not changed, a wise branding decision that was not understood by many at a time before conference realignment phases began in earnest. In August 2023, [...]
There’s something so exciting about venturing to a place where everyone is of the same purpose. The collective understanding that yourself, and the surroundings of connections around you is the network and net worth of all your dedication and discipline. The drive to Galt House felt like the primal understanding of this purpose. We as [...]
A new phenomenon at American institutions of higher education is domestic study away offerings, which are experiential learning trips within one’s home country. Domestic study aways have been rising in popularity for a variety of reasons and are now becoming increasingly available at universities such as Brown, Georgetown, Tennessee, William and Mary, Cal Berkeley, and [...]
In the book Pragmatics of Adaptability, Silva and Mey (2021) note that humans are adaptable. Adaptability has been an inherent attribute since the pandemic. College students have had to shift their styles of learning more than ever so that they can best adapt to new pedagogies in virtual learning. Similarly, the global supply chain has [...]
