Union in the Media

President David R. Harris discussed how colleges are responding to ChatGPT with a reporter for The Economist.

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The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on whether colleges and universities can use race as a factor in admissions decisions.

President David R. Harris shared his thoughts on the topic in an op-ed for the Chicago Tribune. A subscription may be required to access the article.

A version of the article can also be found on the College's news site.

Union held its Commencement for the Class of 2023 on Sunday, June 11.

The Daily Gazette featured a story on the event. A subscription may be required to access the article.

Sophie Brown ‘23 and Melissa Murphy ‘23, student speakers at Commencement, were profiled in the Daily Gazette. A subscription may be required to access the article.

To learn more about Brown and Murphy, visit the College's news site.

Marcus Hotaling, director of the Eppler-Wolff Counseling Center and president of the Association of University and College Counseling Center Directors, shared his expertise about student mental health with Inside Higher Ed. A subscription may be required to access the article.

Hotaling joined Union in 2007.

Chad Orzel, associate professor of physics and astronomy, was recently quoted in Popular Mechanics in an article headlined, "Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle." A subscription may be required to access the article.

Orzel joined Union in 2001.

Shena McAuliffe, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Assistant Professor of English, discussed her latest collection of short stories, "We Are A Teeming Wilderness," with the Daily Gazette.

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She is the author of “The Good Echo: A Novel” (Black Lawrence Press 2018) and “Glass, Light, Electricity” (University of Alaska Press, 2020). One of the essays in “Glass, Light, Electricity,” titled “Marceline Wanted a Bigger Adventure," was awarded a prestigious Pushcart Prize.

She joined Union in 2018.

The Union College Chamber Singers joined the acclaimed Albany Pro Musica and Albany Symphony Orchestra in performances of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at Troy Music Hall, a National Historic Landmark known for its impeccable acoustics.

The Times Union previewed the concerts. A subscription may be required to access the article.

A story also appeared on the College's news site.

Marcus Hotaling, director of the Eppler-Wolff Counseling Center and president of the Association of University and College Counseling Center Directors, was featured by CNN in a piece about student mental health.

Hotaling joined Union in 2007.

A study by Lewis Davis, the Thomas Armstrong Professor of Economics, Stephen Schmidt, the Kenneth B Sharpe Professor of Economics, and Sophia Zacher ’21, "Covid on campus: An empirical analysis of Covid infection rates at U.S. Colleges and Universities," was featured by Inside Higher Ed.

The group's paper was recently published in the Southern Economic Journal.

Using data for the 2020-21 academic year from over 1,000 institutions, they find that COVID infection rates were higher at schools that had larger endowments, higher tuition rates, lower admission rates, and a lower share of minority students. Infection rates were also higher at public universities in states with a Republican governor. The article started as Zacher’s senior thesis project.