December 8, 2010

Sustainability News: December 2010

Ashley Thorne

“If the early 21st century could be said to have a secular religion, it would be the mantra of sustainability,” writes Warren Meyer on Forbes.com. In this religion, American colleges and u......

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December 7, 2010

Campus Discontinues Helen Thomas Award; Thomas 'Anti-Semitic'

Candace de Russy

Wayne State University recently junked its Helen Thomas Spirit of Diversity in Media award after the former White House correspondent, in a workshop on anti-Arab bias, said that the U......

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December 7, 2010

When to Use the Word "Racist"

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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December 6, 2010

Anthropology Association Rejecting Science?

Peter Wood

A look at the implications of the American Anthropological Association's proposal to define "science" out of anthropology.

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December 6, 2010

Ask a Scholar: Interest Rates on Government Debt

King Banaian

Why the low interest rates on government debt?

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December 3, 2010

A Victim of the Education Bubble

George Leef

Listen to this illuminating interview Peter Schiff did with a student who is $200,000 in debt for a sociology degree from Northeastern University. Schiff gets right at the root of the problem: gover......

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December 2, 2010

NAS Supports Freedom of Speech and Conscience in Keeton v. Anderson-Wiley

National Association of Scholars

NAS filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case Keeton v. Anderson-Wiley, in favor of counseling student Jennifer Keeton, who was expelled from Augusta State University for expressing her religious......

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December 1, 2010

Prison Education: Can the Liberal Arts Liberate?

Ashley Thorne

A recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education titled "Doing Time, With a Degree to Show for It," discusses the value of higher education for prison inmates. The author is a distinguished fel......

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December 1, 2010

Do We Really Want to "Stabilize" State University Funding?

George Leef

In this week's Pope Center Clarion Call, I take a critical look at a proposal made in the Nov. 23 Wall Street Journal by University of Oregon president Richard Lariviere. He repeats the usual li......

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December 1, 2010

Wired to Read

Peter Wood

Does literacy bring trade-offs?

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