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Here's the featured article for this week's Overnight News Digest on Daily Kos. I also posted it to Coffee Party USA's and Coffee Party Michigan's Facebook walls.



Rutgers University: President of AAU Warns of Growing Economic Divide in America
March 03, 2011
By John Chadwick

The president of the Association of American Universities told an audience of Rutgers academic and administrative leaders recently that the challenges facing higher education in 21st-century America are rooted in the growing disparities of wealth and income.

“The most ominous threat to America and its institutions . . . is the growing and in some sense relentless division of wealth in this society,” said Robert M. Berdahl during a morning presentation, “Challenges Facing American Public Research Universities Today,” in the Board Room of Winants Hall.

For my Science Saturday series on Overnight News Digest at Daily, I've been featuring research news at the major public research universities in the states where the public employees unions have been under threat from newly elected Republican governors. The first week I highlighted Wisconsin. Last week, I added Ohio and Indiana. This week, I added New Jersey to the list, which is how I found this. I couldn't have asked for a better headliner if I had wished for it. If I can't find enough articles, I'll add Michigan and/or Florida to the list as well. I'll certainly be adding them next week.

Finally, the Nablopomo badge for this month. I placed it at the end because I want the first image to show up when this post gets linked on Facebook.