April 13, 2011

NAS Defends Freedom of Speech in Barnes v. Zaccari

Ashley Thorne

NAS joins a coalition of fifteen organizations to defend freedom of speech at Valdosta State University.

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April 13, 2011

Preferred Colleagues

Peter Wood

Peter Wood examines a new study of hiring biases that faculty members admit to holding.

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April 13, 2011

"Science Isn't Partisan": An Interview with Richard Muller

Ashley Thorne

Berkeley physics professor Richard Muller, who is leading a new independent study of global warming, shares his views on science, carbon footprints, and global warming policy.

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April 12, 2011

Ask a Scholar: Is There a Connection Between Foreign Aid and Civil Rights?

William C. Widenor

Is American humanitarianism related to a felt need to project an image of the US as compassionate, in contrast to its history of racial discrimination?

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April 12, 2011

The Distracted Generation

Jason Fertig

A new book on the internet's effects on the brain opens a window into this generation's world. Instead of learning to fight distraction, we are teaching ourselves to always be distracted.

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April 11, 2011

Taking Our Civilization for Granted

Ashley Thorne

At Pajamas Media, Steve Balch has a two-part series, "Is Our Civilization a Bubble?"

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April 11, 2011

April 13 is Class Action Day

Ashley Thorne

A coalition of faculty unions and organizations, including the California Faculty Association (CFA), the AAUP, the American Federation of Teachers, and the National Education Association, have creat......

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April 11, 2011

How Heavy Is That Teaching Load, Really?

George Leef

In today’s Pope Center piece,  Jay Schalin looks at the recent statement by the UNC system that appears to overstate the amount of teaching that professors actually do.

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April 11, 2011

Video: Christian Brady on Penn State's Honors College and New Media

Christian Brady, dean of the honors college at Penn State, interviewed with Inside Academia this week on his leadership role, the difference between an honors college course and a regular course, an......

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April 11, 2011

Disadvantaged Students

Will Fitzhugh

The truly disadvantaged are those who have not been sufficiently taught how to read and write and graduate from high school unprepared for college.

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