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November 4, 2011

Debate: Does the Sustainability Movement Belong on Campus?

Ashley Thorne

At Bloomberg Businessweek, Ashley Thorne and Paul Rowland debate: The campus sustainability movement subtracts from the better purposes of higher education. Pro or con?

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November 4, 2011

(Not) Too Late to Apologize

Ashley Thorne

The University of Manitoba takes a misguided path to healing and reconciliation.

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November 3, 2011

Postmodern Mesmerists and Western Civilization

William H. Young

Although the American Founders were not seduced by fashionable pseudo-science from France, William Young notes that contemporary academics have eagerly embraced it.

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November 2, 2011

Maybe the SAT Isn't So Bad After All

George Leef

In his recent book Uneducated Guesses, Howard Wainer finds that when schools go "test optional," the students who decide not to report their scores will be academically weaker ones. 

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November 2, 2011

Peter Wood at the University of Alaska Anchorage: "Pre-Occupied: Higher Education, Anger and the Wall Street Protests"

Kate Hamilton

NAS president Peter Wood will address the Occupy Wall Street movement and "New Anger" as part of the Polaris Lecture Series.

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