December 16, 2010

Astronomer Suspected of Creationism Turned Down for UK Post

Ashley Thorne

Today in the Chronicle of Higher Education Innovations blog, Peter Wood writes about Martin Gaskell, who contends that the University of Kentucky discriminated against him and did not appoint him as t......

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December 15, 2010

College Sustainability Programs May Soon Die Out

Ashley Thorne

So writes Charlotte Allen in Minding the Campus. 

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December 15, 2010

Professor Richard Ebeling on the Austrian Economic Tradition

George Leef

Here is an enlightening interview done by an Argentine economist with Professor Richard Ebeling about the Austrian approach:  Mises, Hayek, and others.

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December 15, 2010

Duke's President Versus the University's Reputation

George Leef

President Richard Brodhead pleaded with students not to give Duke the reputation as a sex-crazed campus. Perhaps it would do more if the university stopped bringing in a parade of salacious shows an......

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December 15, 2010

Penn State and Academic Freedom

Ashley Thorne

Penn State is revising its statement on academic freedom to permit faculty members the right to bring one-sided opinions on controversial topics (unrelated to the course) to class. The radicalized A......

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December 14, 2010

If You Criticize Higher Education, Does That Mean You're McCarthyite?

George Leef

In this excellent Minding the Campus essay, history professor KC Johnson tears apart the scurrilous effort of another historian, Ellen Schrecker, to paint those who call for serious reform in higher......

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December 14, 2010

Free to Indoctrinate: The AAUP Applauds Penn State's Retreat from Academic Freedom

Ashley Thorne

Penn State is revising its statement on academic freedom to permit faculty members the right to bring one-sided opinions on controversial topics to class. The radicalized AAUP thinks this is a good......

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December 14, 2010

Racism at Wesleyan?

Peter Wood

Peter Wood reviews the affirmative action bake sale controversy at Wesleyan University and calls for a more circumspect use of the label "racist."

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December 13, 2010

"Mindless" Pursuit of College Degrees Comes at a High Cost

Ashley Thorne

Approximately 60 percent of the increase in the number of college graduates from 1992 to 2008 worked in jobs that the Bureau of Labor Statistics considers relatively low skilled.

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December 13, 2010

Are Organic and Green Products a Scam?

Alex B. Berezow

More and more scientific research is showing that organic and green products don't live up to expectations--or even to the label, for that matter.

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