Author: Nola Jones

The word itself sounds almost archaic, like something you might hear in a 1970s courtroom drama. When embezzlement is stripped of its legal significance, however, it refers to something subtly contemporary: the slow, intentional misappropriation of funds or property by a person who was entrusted with its management. It wasn’t a stranger scaling a window. Not a mask-wearing thief. Someone with a name on the company directory, a desk, and a login. People don’t realize how important that distinction is. Since the person had the right to be close to the money, embezzlement isn’t really theft in the traditional sense.…

Despite the fact that Blythe Hinitz has won numerous awards, they are not the first thing you notice about her career. It’s the endurance. In a nation that has never quite figured out what to do with its youngest children, 45 years of attending the same college in the same field. These days, that kind of perseverance is uncommon. Perhaps it was always the case. In 2015, Exchange magazine named Hinitz, a professor of elementary and early childhood education at The College of New Jersey, one of just three people in the US to be named an Exceptional Master Leader.…