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September 16, 2010

Collegiate Press Roundup 9-16-10

Glenn Ricketts

This week, student op-ed writers look at campus hand gun policies, sex at school and bad language at football games.

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September 15, 2010

Higher Education's Obesity Problem: Administrative Bloat

George Leef

In today's Pope Center Clarion Call, I write about the recent study released by the Goldwater Institute on administrative bloat in higher education. Almost everyone laments the increasing cost of......

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September 15, 2010

A Not-So-Bold Plan

Jason Fertig

A new book by Mark Taylor, Crisis on Campus: A Bold Plan for Reforming Our Colleges and Universities, recycles some familiar ideas.

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September 14, 2010

Spending Too Much on Too Little: Peter Wood Assesses the Bubble

Ashley Thorne

Higher education could be the next bubble to burst, many commentators have observed. It has all the symptoms of the housing bubble, and once enough people realize they are paying too much for too litt......

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September 14, 2010

Fixing America One Treadmill at a Time

Peter Wood

These liberal arts professors have some strange ideas on how to change the world.

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