December 9, 2011

Collegiate Press Roundup

Glenn Ricketts

Student news beat regulars encourage support for the Occupy Wall Street protests, suggest some good speakers for spring commencement, assess the drinking culture on campus, and note the difficulty o......

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December 9, 2011

Harvard Prof Loses Summer Session Courses Because of "Offensive" Op Ed

Glenn Ricketts

We learn from this IHE piece that Harvard economist Subramanian Swamy was apparently pretty distressed by last summer's hotel bombing in Mumbai, India by Muslim extremists. Swamy gave full vent......

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December 9, 2011

How Universities Defend the Status Quo

George Leef

In today’s Pope Center piece, Ron Trowbridge (whose career covers jobs ranging from English prof to college VP to chief of staff for Chief Justice Burger) writes about the response that the hi......

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December 8, 2011

Steve Balch on WTGD Radio: The Importance of Teaching Western Civilization

Kate Hamilton

NAS Chairman Steve Balch appeared on a local Wisconsin public radio program to discuss the reasons why classes on Western Civilization should be a required component of the undergraduate curriculum.

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December 8, 2011

Civic Education and Western Civilization

William H. Young

William Young discusses the role of civic education in the Western tradition, and the consequences of its disappearance from the curriculum.

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December 7, 2011

How Widespread is Student Indoctrination?

Jason Fertig

In an age where business students care more about watching MTV than debating economic theory, Jason Fertig encourages us that free thinking students really do exist.

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December 7, 2011

University of Delaware's Diversity Mania Rages On

George Leef

A blogger whom I assume to be a University of Delaware grad writes here about the latest manifestations of the school's diversity mania. It has recently established a new Center for the Stu......

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December 6, 2011

NAS Criticizes New "Diversity" Guidelines

The Departments of Education and Justice released guidelines last week that, according to the National Association of Scholars, effectively endorse the use of racial preferences in college admission......

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December 5, 2011

No, They Can't Renege On Student Debt

Charlotte Allen

An Occupy Wall Street spin-off movement urges students to default on their educational debts. No way, says Charlotte Allen, since taxpayers would have to pick up the tab.

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December 5, 2011

Why UCLA’s Firing of a Lone Dissenting Voice Should Worry Us

Geoffrey C. Kabat

The treatment of James Enstrom, whose research threatened environmental activists' efforts to enact regulation, illuminates the politicization of science.

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