November 7, 2011

The AAUW - More Manipulation by Survey

John Leo

John Leo scrutinizes another dubious alarmist survey from the AAUW. Unfortunately, most of the media usually give them a free pass.

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November 7, 2011

Defense of NAS Bowdoin Study in Student Newspaper

Ashley Thorne

Peter Wood responds to charges that NAS's study of Bowdoin College is biased.

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November 7, 2011

Larry Summers Speaks at ACTA

George Leef

Larry Summers has some interesting thoughts about grade inflation, tenure, and the curriculum. As an economist, Summers is part of the problem (he’s completely absorbed in the Keynesian view t......

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November 4, 2011

Walking Out on Education

Peter Wood

Peter Wood examines the Occupy movement

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November 4, 2011

Collegiate Press Roundup

Glenn Ricketts

Student press corps writers evaluate this year's Halloween costumes, the Obama administration's foreign policy record, general education requirements and the realization that not everyone sh......

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November 4, 2011

Debate: Does the Sustainability Movement Belong on Campus?

Ashley Thorne

At Bloomberg Businessweek, Ashley Thorne and Paul Rowland debate: The campus sustainability movement subtracts from the better purposes of higher education. Pro or con?

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November 4, 2011

(Not) Too Late to Apologize

Ashley Thorne

The University of Manitoba takes a misguided path to healing and reconciliation.

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November 3, 2011

Postmodern Mesmerists and Western Civilization

William H. Young

Although the American Founders were not seduced by fashionable pseudo-science from France, William Young notes that contemporary academics have eagerly embraced it.

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November 2, 2011

Maybe the SAT Isn't So Bad After All

George Leef

In his recent book Uneducated Guesses, Howard Wainer finds that when schools go "test optional," the students who decide not to report their scores will be academically weaker ones. 

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November 2, 2011

Peter Wood at the University of Alaska Anchorage: "Pre-Occupied: Higher Education, Anger and the Wall Street Protests"

Kate Hamilton

NAS president Peter Wood will address the Occupy Wall Street movement and "New Anger" as part of the Polaris Lecture Series.

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

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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......