September 30, 2008

NO BIG DEAL...but many small ones

Peter Wood

How campaigning-for-credit undermines academic value

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September 29, 2008

Losing Altitude: Leftist Ideologies on the Decline

Peter Wood

People are less and less interested in topics like Marxism and deconstruction, but which new ideological trends are replacing the old?

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September 29, 2008

Unbuttoned in Illinois

Peter Wood

The University of Illinois has issued a strange notice concerning its employees' buttons and bumper stickers.

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September 26, 2008

What Does a Chief Diversity Officer Actually Do?

Peter Wood

Comments on Williams and Wade-Golden's prescriptions for the role of the "diversity messiah"

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September 25, 2008

The Effects of Proposition 209 on California: Higher Education, Public Employment, and Contracting

Charles Geshekter

This is an article from the "Future of Race Preferences" issue of Academic Questions (vol. 21, no. 3). It is an address that was originally presented at

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September 25, 2008

America's Financial Crisis and Higher Education

Peter Wood

Student loans going the way of home mortgages could have serious consequences for the university. A call to academe to pay attention to what's going on in American finance.

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September 24, 2008

Crying Out Loud

Glenn Ricketts

Scholarships for cheerleaders but none for history readers

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September 24, 2008

Lazere v. Gelernter

Peter Wood

On the Sometimes Difficult Task of Setting the Record Straight or Getting Heard Above the Din Especially if Your Points Are Prolix

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September 23, 2008

The Extracurricular Sector of the University: Unappreciated and Soon To Be Unneeded

Tom Wood

With the rise of online education, will student affairs and residence life programs become obsolete?

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September 23, 2008

Observations at Manchester

Ashley Thorne

What does NAS have to say about a private Christian college? NAS takes a tour through Manchester.

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