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“America’s two great exports are Hollywood and higher education.” That’s what a French friend told me when I visited him recently in Paris. After the end of the academic year is the time when college faculty and presidents can stretch their legs, and I recently spent some time in Europe, attending a conference in Greece, a reunion in England, and seeing friends in both England and France. And everywhere I went, I heard uniform praise for America’s colleges and universities.

Lubin Professor Larry Chiagouris speaks with Travel Industry Today about Sandro Botticelli's 15th-century masterpiece “Birth of Venus” becoming a “virtual influencer” in a new Italian tourism campaign. “The more you try to alter something that’s historic, probably the greater the outcry,” said Larry Chiagouris, professor of marketing at �鶹ֱ��’s Lubin School of Business. “People are going to say, ‘You’re changing the culture. You’re changing who we are, because it’s part of our history.’”

Toomey, a conservation scientist at �鶹ֱ��’s Department of Environmental Studies and Sciences, tells me why this happens: It’s human psychology.

“Knowledge is formed by our experiences, not just by reading facts in a textbook,” she says. “Scientists believe ‘if only people knew what I know, they’d think differently from how they think now.’ But that’s not how it works. We don’t just need to give people information. We need to start understanding how that information can be brought into a process of change-making.”

There are now four lawsuits pending in New York courts. The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at �鶹ֱ�� maintains an online Environmental Right Repository with the principal pleadings, decisions on motions, and eventually all judicial decisions as they arrive. The repository also provides references to analogous rulings in other states that provide rights to the environment in their constitutions, as well as to decisions in other jurisdictions around the world.