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January 20, 2010

Where Did the Sustainability Movement Come From?

Ashley Thorne

NAS's Glenn Ricketts traces the history of the sustainability movement, now dominant as a campus ideology, in a major article that will appear in a forthcoming sustainability-themed issue of our......

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January 20, 2010

Things to Come

David Clemens

Having just returned from a Foresight Institute conference on “The Synergy of Molecular Manufacturing and AGI,” I am struck by the educational implications of what I heard about transfor......

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January 20, 2010

Typecasting: Why Nurses are Women, Cops are Conservatives, and Professors are Liberals

Ashley Thorne

A new study concludes that a stereotype keeps conservatives from becoming professors.

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January 19, 2010

Those That REALLY Teach, Can Also DO

Michael Krauss

I was pleased to read this posting in The Lawyerist, entitled Teaching Makes You a Better Lawyer.  This is so true, in my opinion, but it's self-serving when coming from the academy.  ......

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January 19, 2010

Higher Education or Handholding?

George Leef

In yesterday's Pope Center piece, Jay Schalin takes a look at programs in the UNC system that aim at taking the weakest of the incoming students and giving them remedial work in basic math and E......

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