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April 19, 2010

Dictatorships and Double Standards

Robert L. Paquette

How the campus left insulates itself and bullies dissenters.

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April 16, 2010

Collegiate Press Roundup 4-16-10

Glenn Ricketts

Students write about "text-speak," Larry Summers, whether bad weather makes students superhuman, "gender justice," and the unwelcome selection of Martha Nussbaum as graduation speaker.

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April 15, 2010

Best-Educated vs. Most-Educated

Ashley Thorne

Clarifying President Obama's 2020 higher ed goal - sending more students to college won’t make the United States the best-educated nation.

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April 13, 2010

Ask a Scholar: Critical Discourse Analysis

Dario Fernandez-Morera

What does it mean to study literature and culture through Critical Discourse Analysis? Do you have any references of Latin-American authors that develop their work using this approach?

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April 9, 2010

Letter to Stanford Committee: Vote Against Sustainability in Gen Ed Requirement

Peter Wood

Today NAS president Peter Wood sent a letter to the Stanford University Committee on Undergraduate Standards and Policy, which is voting on a proposal to make sustainability education part of a requ......

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