December 17, 2010

Undoing College

Jason Fertig

For students graduating this December, their real education is about to begin.

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December 16, 2010

A Radical Proposal for Re-Structuring Higher Ed

robkoons

Pajamas Media has posted an article by "Publius Audax" proposing nineteen radical reforms. which force on us the question: is there any other way to restore teaching as the fundamental mission of th......

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December 16, 2010

Astronomer Suspected of Creationism Turned Down for UK Post

Ashley Thorne

Today in the Chronicle of Higher Education Innovations blog, Peter Wood writes about Martin Gaskell, who contends that the University of Kentucky discriminated against him and did not appoint him as t......

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December 15, 2010

College Sustainability Programs May Soon Die Out

Ashley Thorne

So writes Charlotte Allen in Minding the Campus. 

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December 15, 2010

Professor Richard Ebeling on the Austrian Economic Tradition

George Leef

Here is an enlightening interview done by an Argentine economist with Professor Richard Ebeling about the Austrian approach:  Mises, Hayek, and others.

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December 15, 2010

Duke's President Versus the University's Reputation

George Leef

President Richard Brodhead pleaded with students not to give Duke the reputation as a sex-crazed campus. Perhaps it would do more if the university stopped bringing in a parade of salacious shows an......

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December 15, 2010

Penn State and Academic Freedom

Ashley Thorne

Penn State is revising its statement on academic freedom to permit faculty members the right to bring one-sided opinions on controversial topics (unrelated to the course) to class. The radicalized A......

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December 14, 2010

If You Criticize Higher Education, Does That Mean You're McCarthyite?

George Leef

In this excellent Minding the Campus essay, history professor KC Johnson tears apart the scurrilous effort of another historian, Ellen Schrecker, to paint those who call for serious reform in higher......

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December 14, 2010

Free to Indoctrinate: The AAUP Applauds Penn State's Retreat from Academic Freedom

Ashley Thorne

Penn State is revising its statement on academic freedom to permit faculty members the right to bring one-sided opinions on controversial topics to class. The radicalized AAUP thinks this is a good......

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December 14, 2010

Racism at Wesleyan?

Peter Wood

Peter Wood reviews the affirmative action bake sale controversy at Wesleyan University and calls for a more circumspect use of the label "racist."

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