March 11, 2011

Collegiate Press Roundup

Glenn Ricketts

Student journalists have a look at campus elections, Transgender Awareness Week, the Libyan crisis and the joy of polyamory.

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March 11, 2011

The Cultural Contradictions of Sustainability

William H. Young

The sustainability movement aims to prevent expansion and propagate utopianism. Yet its advocates promote the spread of their ideas and seek "real change" in the real world. Higher education should tr......

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March 11, 2011

Ask a Scholar: Pragmatism in Education

Lynda Stone

How relevant is pragmatism to the education system today?

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March 10, 2011

NPR vs. Northwestern University

Ashley Thorne

At the Chronicle, Naomi Schaefer Riley has a perceptive post contrasting National Public Radio with Northwestern University. Both recently went through public embarrassments, but at NPR, people......

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March 10, 2011

Argus Update

Ashley Thorne

NAS members and volunteers help keep an eye on what's happening at colleges and universities across the country.

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March 10, 2011

Video: Academic Questions Author Zuhdi Jasser Discusses Radical Islam Hearings

Zuhdi Jasser, who wrote "Islamic Schools and American Civic Culture" for the spring 2011 issue of Academic Questions, testified at the Peter King hearings in Congress.

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March 10, 2011

The Coarsening

Peter Wood

Peter Wood comments on the combination of low taste and high privilege that are increasingly characteristic of American faculty members.

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March 10, 2011

The Education Dimaryp

Will Fitzhugh

A visual commentary on the priorities in American public schools.

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March 9, 2011

Faculty Unionization: Pro and Con

George Leef

In this week's Pope Center Clarion Call, we feature two sharply differing views on the hotly debated topic of faculty unionization. Arguing in favor is the AAUP's Cary Nelson. Arguing agains......

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March 9, 2011

Widener Committee Advises: Withdraw Charges Against Law Prof Who Used Hypotheticals to Teach

Ashley Thorne

The committee of inquiry at Widener University recommends that charges of racism and sexism against Professor Lawrence Connell be dropped.

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