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April 10, 2014

The Liberal Arts Are in Trouble - Should We Celebrate?

Peter Wood

Minding the Campus holds a symposium on the question of whether the decline of the liberal arts is actually constructive. 

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April 9, 2014

Documenting Discrimination in Hiring and Promotion

Peter Wood

NAS seeks to identify academics who believe they have been denied hiring or promotion on the basis of race, ethnicity, or sex.

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April 7, 2014

Fault Lines: The Common Core in California

Peter Wood

In an exchange with a Common Core defender, Peter Wood investigates K-12 standards in California. 

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April 7, 2014

Top Five Environmental Themes in Darren Aronofsky’s Noah

Rachelle Peterson

The recent movie reimagines Noah as a prophet of environmental sustainability. 

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April 7, 2014

The National Association of Scholars Calls for True Liberty and Fairness at Bowdoin and Other Liberal Arts Colleges

National Association of Scholars

PRESS RELEASE: A year after the release of What Does Bowdoin Teach? the NAS summons liberal arts colleges to give fair treatment to people across the political and religious spectr......

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