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Siri Terjesen
Dr. Siri A. Terjesen is associate dean, research & external relations, founding executive director of the
Madden Center for Value Creation
.
College Is Still Worth It. Crushing Debt Isn’t.
Commentary It's college application season. Across the country, high school seniors are hitting "submit," and the parents, grandparents, ...
Viewpoints
November 12, 2026
Melville’s Chimney and Silicon Valley’s Faustian Bargain
Commentary Human–machine interaction is now everywhere. We work, study, write, research, and even converse with artificial intelligence. The ...
Viewpoints
October 27, 2026
Stop Taxing the Tractor: Why Floridians Should Vote Yes on Amendment 2
Commentary If you bit into fresh sweet corn last winter, or tossed a bell pepper into a January ...
Viewpoints
October 23, 2026
Florida Paid Down Half Its Debt. Washington Should Take Notes.
Commentary The U.S. federal government debt is $40.3 trillion, which is more than $115,000 for every man, woman, ...
Viewpoints
October 13, 2026
What’s in a Name? From Bessie the Car to Rosie the Roomba to Siri the AI
America’s ancient need to animate the world around us.
Viewpoints
June 28, 2026
In the Age of AI, the Best Thing I Can Give My Students Is a Dinner Table
Commentary The other night, my dining room held 23 students from two graduate business cohorts and five accomplished ...
Viewpoints
June 12, 2026
The Florida Model for Property Tax Relief
Commentary On June 2, after a two-day special session, the Florida Legislature did something most statehouses only talk ...
Viewpoints
June 3, 2026
Common Ground: How Genealogy Can Reunite a Divided America
At a moment when we seem to agree on very little, genealogy reminds us that we share more ...
Viewpoints
April 25, 2026
Why States Are Right to Reject AI Legal Personhood
When AI causes harm, there must be a human who answers for it. That principle is not a ...
Viewpoints
March 31, 2026
2 States, 2 Visions: California Wants to Add a Wealth Tax; Florida Wants to Remove One
Commentary While Sacramento legislators debate how to extract more money from residents who are already leaving, Tallahassee legislators ...
Viewpoints
March 2, 2026
Hands Off Private Equity
Commentary In recent years, private equity (PE) and other “alternative” investments have been demonized in the popular press ...
Viewpoints
March 27, 2025
Unleash Technology Transfer Potential in Federal Labs
Commentary Technology transfer is the process of translating laboratory research into tangible products or services that benefit the ...
Viewpoints
March 18, 2025
‘Promising Pathway Act’ Will Save Lives Over and Above ‘Right to Try’ and ‘Expanded Access’
The best hope for these Americans and future generations facing terminal and rare diseases is the recently reintroduced ...
Viewpoints
June 5, 2024
Can States Play a Small Role in Saving Higher Education?
Will higher education look like it does today, only smaller and leaner? Or are we witnessing the start ...
Viewpoints
April 11, 2024
Unauthorized GPS Tracking Is Now a Felony in Florida and a Model for Other States
Commentary The unauthorized installation and use of GPS tracking devices and mobile phone apps directly leads to murders, ...
Business Columnists
March 6, 2024
Quiet Quitting: Cutting University Bequests Out of Wills
Commentary The problem of a higher education system pursuing goals that are increasingly at odds with those of ...
Business Columnists
February 20, 2024
The Florida Model for Entrepreneurial Success
Commentary Florida is the most entrepreneurial state in the nation, based on recent research examining the percentage of ...
US News
February 15, 2024
AI for the Win: A Dissenting Perspective
Commentary The explosive adoption of the AI language model ChatGPT has been accompanied by a proportionate increase in ...
Viewpoints
June 13, 2023
Putting Up Their Happiness as Collateral for Their Car Loans
Commentary As a university professor, one of the greatest rewards is mentoring students to realize the American Dream ...
Viewpoints
May 8, 2023
Ranked Choice Voting: The Latest Elite Fad Pushing Toward Social Disintegration
Commentary When society has widespread faith that its institutions and the experts who guide public policy are unbiased, ...
Viewpoints
March 10, 2023
Can Project Veritas Survive Without Founder-CEO James O’Keefe?
Commentary Two weeks ago, Project Veritas generated global headlines by exposing a Pfizer employee who claimed that the ...
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February 22, 2023
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By
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