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December 12, 2011

Leaf-Taking

Peter Wood

Peter Wood argues that the contemporary university should dethrone “critical thinking.”

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December 12, 2011

Graduate School Administrators Unwittingly Parody Themselves

John Rosenberg

The Council of Graduate Schools compensates for its decision to meet in Arizona - a state it considered boycotting - by paying homage to diversity.

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December 12, 2011

No Evidence of Sexual Harassment? Guilty, Says the Dean

Glenn Ricketts

Professor Arthur Gilbert, a long-time, highly regarded faculty member in the University of Denver's Joseph Korbel School of International Studies is still seeking vindication, following his outr......

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December 12, 2011

Are College Presidents Paid Too Much? NAS's Herb London Weighs In

Ashley Thorne

Herb opines that some presidents may deserve the high salaries they receive, but often their income can hurt morale at a university if faculty members perceive it as unfairly extravagant. 

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December 9, 2011

Why Academic Gobbledygook Makes Sense

Robert Weissberg

Academic prose is famously turgid and obscure, but political scientist Robert Weissberg can see where it comes in handy in a feverishly PC academic climate like the present one.

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