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March 11, 2011

Links to Widener Law Prof Update

Ashley Thorne

Thanks to bloggers for the links to NAS's update on Widener criminal law professor Lawrence Connell. A university committee recently recommended withdrawing charges of racism and sexism against......

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March 11, 2011

David Horowitz at Brooklyn College

Mitchell Langbert

A student, Yosef Sobel, decided to invite David Horowitz to Brooklyn College in response to campus protests. The campus protesters pretended to be Israeli military officers stopping students at checkp......

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March 11, 2011

Collegiate Press Roundup

Glenn Ricketts

Student journalists have a look at campus elections, Transgender Awareness Week, the Libyan crisis and the joy of polyamory.

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March 11, 2011

The Cultural Contradictions of Sustainability

William H. Young

The sustainability movement aims to prevent expansion and propagate utopianism. Yet its advocates promote the spread of their ideas and seek "real change" in the real world. Higher education should tr......

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March 11, 2011

Ask a Scholar: Pragmatism in Education

Lynda Stone

How relevant is pragmatism to the education system today?

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