World Events, Quality Matters, Why Disappointment Hurts

World Events, Quality Matters, Why Disappointment Hurts

The Matt Townsend Show - Season 5, Episode 237

  • Oct 3, 2016 4:00 pm
  • 2:22:42 mins

Joe Cannon – World Events (16:50) Joe Cannon is our Washington Insider. Joe served as an assistant administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 1983-1985. Was a candidate for the U.S. Senate in 1992. He served as the Chairman of the Utah Republican Party from 2002 to 2006. He was named editor of the Deseret Morning News on December 8, 2006. Joe currently is the CEO of Fuel Freedom Foundation.   Deb Adair - Quality Matters (1:00:12) Thanks to technological advancements students can now access educational courses online. But the recent closing of ITT Tech has some people worried about the legitimacy of online courses. Dr. Deb Adair has more than 25 years’ experience in higher education, in faculty and administration, as well as non-profit leadership and management consulting. Previously, she served in the U.S. Army as a Soviet Analyst and Cryptologic Linguist (Russian). She currently serves as the Executive Director of Quality Matters and joins us today to discuss online courses.  Liana Tan - Roommates (1:28:30) Everyone has likely had a roommate in their life before, and if you don’t now, you probably will in the future. It’s important to create healthy relationships with roommates and learn to communicate. Our producer, Liana Tan, will share with us 5 questions we should ask our roommates to get to know them on a deeper level and avoid any potential relationship disasters. Katherine Hawley - Why Disappointment Hurts (1:50:12) Katherine Hawley is a professor of philosophy at the University of St Andrews, in Fife, Scotland and author of the blog, “Trust: Ethics and Beyond” for psychologytoday.com. She joins us today to discuss her article, “Why Someone’s Disappointment Hurts Us More Than Their Anger.”