June 3, 2011

New Resource at NAS.org: Education Stats

Ashley Thorne

NAS now offers a sampling of statistics and charts on higher education.

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June 3, 2011

Untenuring Tenure

Peter Wood

Peter Wood weighs Naomi Schaefer Riley’s arguments for abolishing tenure in her book The Faculty Lounges.

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June 3, 2011

Collegiate Press Roundup

Glenn Ricketts

Student journalists weigh in on hookah smoking, same sex marriage, inactive campus political activists and the need to extend broader gun rights to undergraduates.

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June 2, 2011

Video: Peter Wood Gives Congressional Testimony on Social Science Research

Ashley Thorne

Peter Wood argues before Congress that the National Science Foundation (NSF) should continue to fund research in the social, behavioral, and economic sciences, but that it should make strategic cuts......

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June 2, 2011

Understanding the Constitution - No Comment

Glenn Ricketts

A college student's view of how to improve public understanding of the Electoral College

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June 2, 2011

Can You Drop It on Your Foot?

John Maguire

A college writing professor urges students to avoid "abstractitis" and use concrete nouns.

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June 1, 2011

Video: Christopher Long on The Future of "Educating for Liberty"

Chris Long tells about ISI's mission to reach today's college students.

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June 1, 2011

Steve Balch on Why We Should Study the West

Generations detached from their culture's legacy will be less likely to defend it now, or in the future.

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June 1, 2011

Sexual Harassment: Probably Guilty is Good Enough

Glenn Ricketts

Recently, the US Dept. of Education's Office for Civil Rights mandated a new standard of proof for campus sexual misconduct procedures. Watch out, because it's going to be a LOT easier to fi......

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May 31, 2011

When Professors Are Not Civil

George Leef

In today's Pope Center piece, Jay Schalin writes about two recent incidents where leftist professors publicly rebuked students for offering opinions with which they disagreed.

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