Doug Neckers
Hope Endures
We’ve heard a lot of doom and gloom about education lately, but here’s some good news: small colleges, which many have feared may be endange
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Doug Neckers
- Jun 13
- 3 min
Cedars of Lebanon
Here’s hoping things improve for them and for Lebanon, one of the most beautiful countries in the world, a land with a tragic but inspiring
Doug Neckers
- May 4
- 4 min
Higher Education Emerging
It’s hardly a secret that educators at all levels have faced challenges because of pandemic-related closures and lockdowns.
Doug Neckers
- Mar 18
- 4 min
Basketball Mania
Forget, for a moment, the war, the pandemic, inflation and all the other assorted horrors. For it is March, and that means… basketball mani
Doug Neckers
- Feb 22
- 4 min
The Research Challenge
Let’s break our economic decline and end the long winter of mediocrity. We know we can do better.
Doug Neckers
- Feb 17
- 4 min
Football
Can you imagine what they might have to pay these guys if they ever went undefeated? If you think I’m being sarcastic, you are right.
Doug Neckers
- Dec 10, 2021
- 4 min
Messiah and a Modern Mess
Handel’s oratorio Messiah is to the King James translation of the Bible much as baseball was to the American Civil War, as Ken Burns has obs
Doug Neckers
- Dec 8, 2021
- 3 min
Politics and Teaching
Back in 1987, two distinguished citizens were nominated to receive honorary degrees -- William F. Buckley Jr. and Fred (Mr.) Rogers...
Doug Neckers
- Apr 9, 2021
- 4 min
Why I Write
One reason is to bring things I know about to newspaper readers. I spent my life’s work as a chemist, and there are few scientists who try
Doug Neckers
- Mar 14, 2021
- 4 min
State Universities
We need to reexamine this notion of “college for all, regardless of their skills,” that has been a national mantra for decades -- and this m
