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October 26, 2009

On Fat Studies

Glenn Ricketts

Abigail Alger at Reformer's Blog has a good article on "Why Fat Studies (and All Identity Studies) Hurt Higher Education": But Fat Studies, like all identity studies, begins with the end......

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October 26, 2009

Reader Mail Re: Transformative Education

Ashley Thorne

A reader from Australia commented on Tom Wood's article "The Marriage of Affirmative Action and Transformative Education": This year, I was in a compulsory BA class that used transformative ed......

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October 26, 2009

Richard Steiner Responds

Richard Steiner

The University Alaska professor who was denied grant funding for engaging in sustainability advocacy responds to the NAS.

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October 23, 2009

Ideologues vs. Principles

Peter Wood

Check out my article at NAS.org, "Sustainability Skepticism Has Arrived." I juxtapose two news stories from this week on challenges to the sustainability doctrine: These stories are parallel. Both......

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