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July 6, 2011

Prescient

George Leef

"The widespread use of high school diplomas and college degrees as employment screening devices by employers has led to a belief that increasing education will increase opportunities, and/or that th......

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July 6, 2011

Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel for Students

George Leef

In this week's Pope Center Clarion Call, I write about the new book In the Basement of the Ivory Tower by "Professor X." He's an adjunct who teaches English at two lower-tier schools and the......

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July 6, 2011

Video: Higher Education an Anti-Thrift Institution?

Peter Wood raises the issue of universities' bad stewardship at a recent event in New York.

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July 6, 2011

Majoring in Images

Peter Wood

Peter Wood reviews a popular recent novel. He finds some very funny cultural satire as well as themes that resonate in the contemporary academic landscape.

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July 6, 2011

The Real Purpose of Education

David Clemens

Good teaching should result “in a lighting of those lamps in the mind and in the heart that shall eventually show the Way, the Truth, and the Life.”

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