March 24, 2011

Diversity Vigil at Princeton Theological Seminary

Ashley Thorne

Students and faculty gathered at the seminary to rehearse racial grievances and express outrage over flyers distributed on campus about the link between eugenics and African American abortions.

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March 24, 2011

Ask a Scholar: Graduation Rates with Pell Grants

Matthew Denhart

Has there been a report made comparing graduation rates with and without Pell Grants?

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March 23, 2011

Why Are Most College Professors Liberal? New Studies Investigate

Ashley Thorne

This week Neil Gross and his colleagues released two new studies analyzing clues as to why the majority of professors are politically liberal. They focus on graduate school. What sort of person goes t......

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March 23, 2011

Betrayed by Higher Ed

David Clemens

My former student Joshua, now ambivalently quartered at UC Santa Cruz (home of the fightin’ Banana Slugs and currently under Federal investigation for systemic anti-Semitism), has an a......

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March 23, 2011

Looking for Answers? Ask a Scholar!

Ashley Thorne

NAS is partnering with Intellectual Takeout to answer questions that call for scholarly judgment and can't be answered by Wikipedia. 

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March 23, 2011

Can Innovation Transform Higher Education?

George Leef

In this week’s Pope Center Clarion Call, Burck Smith, the entrepreneur behind StraighterLine, writes about the prospects for dramatic change through innovation in higher education. Innovation......

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March 23, 2011

Debating Same-Sex Marriage

Peter Wood

Peter Wood considers the academy's influence on public opinion regarding same-sex marriage and encourages more debate among scholars.

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March 23, 2011

Video: Anne Neal on the Responsibilities of Universities

Anne Neal explains why students should not be thought of as customers, and how colleges must be held accountable for providing solid, affordable education.

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March 22, 2011

Ask a Scholar: Who Pays for America's Health Care?

King Banaian

How much of health care in the United States is funded by the government?

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March 22, 2011

Video: Berkeley Physics Professor Lectures on Climategate...No Comment

Ashley Thorne

Richard Muller: "You're not allowed to do this in science. This is not up to our standards."

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