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January 4, 2010

Recommended Student Article

Ashley Thorne

Check out this Minding the Campus article by Matt Shaffer, a senior at Yale who is "Yearning for Great Books." 

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January 3, 2010

Entitlement U.S.A.: Colleges as Attendance Centers

Jonathan Bean

Several years ago, I chuckled when I dropped my young daughter off at a friend's elementary school. In fact, the school was named an "Attendance Center." I never learned why "school" was suddenl......

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December 31, 2009

Highlights from NAS's 2009 Fall Semester

Ashley Thorne

As we head into the New Year, we look back on 30 of our most memorable articles this fall semester.

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December 30, 2009

The Best Careers Through Online Education

Ashley Thorne

By Adrienne Carlson It may come as a surprise to you, especially if you’ve always believed that online education is inferior to the traditional kind – there are certain careers where an......

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December 29, 2009

Muppet Yoda or ‘Toon Yoda?

David Clemens

For 30 years, I have used Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now in conjunction with Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness to illustrate allusion, ambiguity, irony, anxiety of influence, medi......

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