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February 3, 2011

Hard Core

Glenn Ricketts

In the past few weeks, terms like "rigor," "core curriculum" and "traditional humanities courses" have acquired new respectibility following publication of Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa's Academ......

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February 3, 2011

Freedom and Standards at Brooklyn College: The Case of Kristofer Petersen-Overton

Mitchell Langbert

Sharad Karkhanis's Patriot Returns, which goes to 13,000 CUNY faculty and staff, published a recast version of my piece on the Kristofer Peterson-Overton matter that was covered in The New York......

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February 3, 2011

Higher Education: Public Good or Public Bad?

George Leef

In this week’s Pope Center Clarion Call, Jane Shaw considers the question whether higher education is a “public good.” In economics parlance, public goods are goods that the free mar......

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February 3, 2011

Ask a Scholar: Economic Freedom and Well-Being

Ashley Thorne

Does a country's level of economic freedom affect the standard of living of its people?

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February 3, 2011

Lumina's New Degree Profile: As Elusive as the Snark

Peter Wood

Peter Wood questions whether American higher education needs an "outcomes framework," or whether we'd be better equipped with something more like a core curriculum.

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