September 30, 2011

Collegiate Press Roundup

Glenn Ricketts

Student journalists take on the big issues, including the Israeli-Palestinian standoff, campus diversity, religion and politics and what awaits graduating seniors out there in the real world.

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September 30, 2011

What Does Bowdoin Teach?

Peter Wood

The National Association of Scholars announces the beginning of a new project examining the curriculum, student activities, and campus values of Bowdoin College as a case study to learn what a contemp......

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September 29, 2011

Reciprocity and Western Civilization

William H. Young

William Young continues his series with this dicussion of reciprocity in the Western social tradition.

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September 29, 2011

Mobbing For Preferences

September 28, 2011

A New Analogy for Ending Racial Preferences

Ashley Thorne

Roger Clegg suggests the analogy we should use in talking about the end of racial preferences is not a football game with blacks vs. whites, but a marathon with individual runners.

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September 28, 2011

Western Governors University Moves Online Education Forward

George Leef

Duke Cheston writes that Western Governors University has found solutions to some of the problems that have plagued online higher ed. 

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September 28, 2011

Improving a Bad Analogy

Roger Clegg

CEO president Roger Clegg explains why a familiar football analogy doesn't work as a justification for race preferences.

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September 28, 2011

OCR's New Sexual Harassment Guidelines Threaten Academic Freedom, Due Process

Glenn Ricketts

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights has mandated new guidelines for processing sexual harassment cases on college campuses. Watch out: it's going to be much easier to fin......

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September 27, 2011

Video: Is Higher Education Worth the Money?

Andy Nash

CollegeNET president Jim Wolfston discusses the question with Andy Nash.

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September 27, 2011

Missed Opportunities in College Common Reading: A Response to Brendan Boyle

Ashley Thorne

Ashley Thorne replies to a professor of classics at UNC-Chapel Hill who wishes for more fiction in college summer reading assignments.

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