April 2, 2012

University of California Report in the News

Ashley Thorne

Both national and local media pay attention to a new report by NAS's California affiliate on the politicization of the University of California.

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April 2, 2012

More Better Citizens: Obama's Higher-Education Agenda, Part 4B of 8

Peter Wood

Peter Wood looks at the ways "diversity," loan forgiveness for public service, the Common Core State Standards, and Obama's earlier involvment with the group Public Allies show the President'......

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March 30, 2012

A Crisis of Competence: The Corrupting Effect of Political Activism in the University of California

John M. Ellis

A report on the consequences of politicization in higher education, focused on the University of California.

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March 30, 2012

Politics Undermining Learning, Scholars Warn University of California

PRESS RELEASE: The California Association of Scholars has published a report showing how radical faculty members and administrators and politicized courses have compromised the quality of education......

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March 29, 2012

Education vs. Training at Community Colleges

Jason Fertig

Jeff Anderson, dean of humanities, fine arts, and social sciences at Illinois Valley Community College, argues for the many benefits of great books courses, even for community college students.

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March 29, 2012

A Thought-Provoking 'Is the West Best?' Discussion with Ibn Warraq

Ashley Thorne

At a lively panel discussion on Wednesday at Saint Francis College, authors Ibn Warraq and Paul Berman, and journalist Sohrab Ahmari reflected on the worth of Western civilization.

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March 29, 2012

Capitalism and Western Civilization: Independence

William H. Young

William Young examines the idea of the independent economic individual and his return to the workplace.

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March 28, 2012

Not Hungry

Ashley Thorne

The bestselling pulp fiction book The Hunger Games fails to give Ashley Thorne an appetite for more.

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March 28, 2012

Lumina: U.S. Needs More College Grads

Joanne Jacobs

Joanne Jacobs contrasts the Lumina Foundation's call for 23 million more college-educated workers to Peter Wood's arguments that more higher education does not directly correlate with a nati......

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