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January 22, 2010

Politics of Scarcity at Penn State...No Comment

Glenn Ricketts

"The class does not claim to present an evenly balanced assessment."

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January 21, 2010

Is the University Obligated to Educate Everyone?

Ashley Thorne

Cross posted from NAS.org From time to time we cite without comment various items from articles, books, websites, and other sources. We don't comment on these items (at least in w......

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January 21, 2010

Social Role of the University...No Comment

Ashley Thorne

A 1962 newspaper clipping recaps the message of a campus speaker who asked, "What is the university's fundamental social obligation?"

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January 20, 2010

Recommended Articles for 1/20/10

Ashley Thorne

NBC: Yale President Responds to T-Shirt Controversy "I think of all Harvard men as sissies" from F. Scott Fitzgerald's book This Side of Paradise (which I'm currently reading) was deemed off......

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January 20, 2010

I Applaud Jackson Toby's New Book

George Leef

In this week's Pope Center Clarion Call, I review the new book by Rutgers sociology professor Jackson Toby, The Lowering of Higher Education in America. Toby makes much the same case I have -- w......

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