December 14, 2011

What’s Going on Behind the Curtain? Climategate 2.0 and Scientific Integrity

H. Sterling Burnett

New leaked emails by climate researchers don't disprove anthropogenic global warming - but they do seem to call into question these scientists' reliability.

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December 14, 2011

You Don't Have to Write That Check!

George Leef

Duke University has recently received some large gifts, but in today's Pope Center Clarion Call, alum Al Oettinger explains why he has stopped giving the school money.

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December 14, 2011

Sustainability News

Ashley Thorne

Researchers determine that sustainability is now a science; Occupy Wall Street's sustainability committee plays house; Harvard looks to hire someone who can "cultivate an understanding of food......

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December 13, 2011

Video: Neal McCluskey on Student Loans Driving up Tuition

The associate director of the Center for Educational Freedom discusses college cost inflation with Andy Nash.

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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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Professor Alleges "Widespread" Discriminatory Hiring Coverup at University of Washington

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Remembering Warren Winiarski

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DEI vs. Academic Integrity at University of Washington

FOIA requests found evidence of racial discrimination at the University of Washington. A professor now accuses the University of a cover-up. A leading scholar of "whiteness" is accus......