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Age Consciousness, Age Segregation, and Age Denigration

Confessions of a Community College Dean

At the same time, age became a crucial legal category, defining when one could work, drink, smoke, marry, enter the military, and even have sexual relations. It accentuates competition over public priorities: Whether public resources should be devoted to Social Security, Medicare, and services to seniors, or to education and child care.

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President moves: Some are homegrown, others served public departments

University Business

A military thoroughbred, Shannon served in the army for over 20 years and subsequently advised the U.S. Akakpo, a veteran leader with experience across several institutions. Army officer, Georgia Tech’s current interim chief business officer and first-generation student Michael P. Department of Defense on nuclear technology.