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September 2, 2011

Disrupting the Textbook Machine

David Clemens

The higher education bubble was inflated by various pumps and gases:  expensive but useless degrees, an ideological straitjacket, grade inflation, administrative bloat, and proliferating progra......

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September 2, 2011

Collegiate Press Roundup

Glenn Ricketts

Student reporters get the Fall semester rolling with observations on the national debt crisis, same-sex marriage, the vocation of college journalists and how to spend your summer break.

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September 2, 2011

Too Much For Too Little

Peter Wood

NAS President Peter Wood offers observations on the diminishing value of a college degree.

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September 1, 2011

Marriage and Family in Western Civilization

William H. Young

William H. Young examines the present dysfunctional state of the family in light of its traditional role in Western Civilization.

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August 31, 2011

Mushrooming Syllabi

George Leef

Thomas Bertonneau discusses the reasons why course syllabi have been mushrooming over the years: students are less and less accustomed to academic work, more inclined to complain if things aren'......

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