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September 15, 2010

A Not-So-Bold Plan

Jason Fertig

A new book by Mark Taylor, Crisis on Campus: A Bold Plan for Reforming Our Colleges and Universities, recycles some familiar ideas.

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September 14, 2010

Spending Too Much on Too Little: Peter Wood Assesses the Bubble

Ashley Thorne

Higher education could be the next bubble to burst, many commentators have observed. It has all the symptoms of the housing bubble, and once enough people realize they are paying too much for too litt......

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September 14, 2010

Fixing America One Treadmill at a Time

Peter Wood

These liberal arts professors have some strange ideas on how to change the world.

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September 13, 2010

Newsflash: MSN Cites "Weird" College Courses

Glenn Ricketts

This just in from the MSN homepage, where there's a piece advising parents of prospective college students to check out what their hefty tuition buys them these days. The "weird" offerings inclu......

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September 13, 2010

What Has Become of Freshman Comp?

George Leef

That is the question Professor Robert V. Young of North Carolina State answers in this Pope Center piece we released last week. Back when he taught the course in the 1970s, it was like boot camp for c......

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