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October 31, 2011

Good News! Drinking, Hooking Up, Still Thriving at Catholic U.

Glenn Ricketts

At least, that's the tone of this article that's in today's IHE. Although the author of the piece, Elizabeth Murphy, notes that opinion on CUA's campus is split 50/50 on the issue, s......

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October 31, 2011

Where is the Threat to "Academic Freedom"?

George Leef

My first response to the sleazy New Yorker hit piece by Jane Mayer on Art Pope (and spilling over onto the Pope Center) drew a reply from John Wilson on the AAUP’s blog. In today’s Pope......

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October 31, 2011

Lessons from Our Upgrade to a Non-Tenure University

Douglas Campbell

Two professors contrast employment with a tenure system to employment without it.

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October 28, 2011

Still More: A Student Affairs Administrator Disputes "Victim-Friendly" Policy

Ashley Thorne

This open letter at Inside Higher Ed by an anonymous student affairs administrator is the most powerful piece of evidence I've seen so far showing why the mandates in the Office of Civil Rights&......

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October 28, 2011

More on Sen. Leahy's VAWA Amendment

Glenn Ricketts

Vermont Sen. Pat Leahy's proposed codification of OCR's outrageous new "guidelines" for college sexual harassment case procedures has been getting some close public scrutiny and deservedly s......

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