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October 13, 2011

Should Schools Become "Proactive" in Recruiting LGBT Students?

George Leef

Will LGBT status or socio-economic status become the next mania among college admissions people intent on making their campuses "balanced" and "mirroring diversity"?

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October 13, 2011

Excellence and Western Civilization

William H. Young

From kindergarten through college, our educational system is no longer based on the Western tradition of excellence. William Young continues his series by assessing the consequences.

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October 13, 2011

Pre-Occupied

Peter Wood

Peter Wood examines the theatrical anger of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

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October 12, 2011

Let's All Go to College? Not So Fast

Glenn Ricketts

Retired Rutgers University sociologist, Jackson Toby, examines what role a large cohort of disappointed, unemployed college graduates may have played in driving the recent upheavals in Egypt, T......

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October 12, 2011

Is Higher Ed on the Brink of Major Change?

George Leef

In the recent book by Clay Christensen and Henry Eyring, The Innovative University, the authors contend that many colleges and universities will be left in the dust unless they figure out how to ada......

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