March 1, 2011

Politicizing the Classroom, Part 1

Peter Wood

Peter Wood examines the AAUP’s new report on political controversy in the academy.

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February 28, 2011

Starting from Scratch in Climate Change Science

Ashley Thorne

An article in the Guardian this weekend tells about a Berkeley physics professor, Richard Muller, who has assembled a team of scientists for an initiative he calls the Berkeley Earth project. His go......

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February 25, 2011

How Do North Carolina Schools Do on General Education?

George Leef

That's the subject of today's Pope Center piece by Jenna Robinson. Most are rather weak when it comes to requiring a broad education.

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February 25, 2011

Ideology in the Industrial Relations Academy

Mitchell Langbert

The Labor and Employment Relations Association, previously called the Industrial Relations Research Association, is a learned society devoted to industrial and labor relations. Traditionally, LERA h......

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February 25, 2011

You're Hired--You're Fired

Mitchell Langbert

Sharad Karkhanis's Patriot Returns newsletter, which goes to 13,000 CUNY faculty and employees, emailed my responses to a number of letters to the editor concerning my article "Freedom and Stand......

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February 25, 2011

Collegiate Press Roundup

Glenn Ricketts

Student news hawks analyze developments in the Middle East, misinformation about the global climate, the role of handguns in deterring crime and the nuisance of academic institutional assessment.

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February 25, 2011

Sustainability News

Ashley Thorne

This edition of sustainability news includes articles on campus culture, curriculum, sustainability pledges, and funding, and it concludes with several critical perspectives.

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February 24, 2011

The Provocative Ideas of "Publius Audax"

robkoons

Pajamas Media have published a series of posts on higher education in Texas, authored by “Publius Audax”, a pseudonym for a professor at an undisclosed state university. Readers of this......

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February 24, 2011

Needless Educational Credential -- The JD

George Leef

In this Washington Examiner piece, lawyer Hans Bader, a Harvard Law School grad, argues that law school is unnecessary and that people who wish to go into legal practice should be allowed to study f......

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February 24, 2011

Mission: Preparation

Peter Cohee

Activism-as-learning begins before college, through the influence on schools of groups such as Facing History and the Children's Environmental Literacy Foundation. What are we preparing students f......

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Where Did We Get the Idea That Only White People Can Be Racist?

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