August 20, 2010

Threats to Academic Freedom from Right and Left

Ashley Thorne

Bob Samuels reviews AAUP president Cary Nelson's book No University is an Island: Not only did I discover this year that some administrators were receiving all of my emails, but, a couple of y......

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August 20, 2010

Professor Paquette Responds

Ashley Thorne

In April, Hamilton College American history professor Robert Paquette published an NAS article describing how the campus left insulates itself and bullies dissenters. 

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August 20, 2010

Building a 21st Century Syllabus

David Clemens

Professors these days have to cover their backs when writing syllabi, writes David Clemens.

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August 20, 2010

Question of the Week: Why Did You Choose Your College?

Ashley Thorne

We're starting a new "Question of the Week" series. We'll have a new higher-education-related question every week. To answer, leave a comment on this article, email us, or respond via Facebo......

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August 19, 2010

Real Ethics Education

Jason Fertig

Ethics courses should make moral decisions personal, argues Jason Fertig.

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August 19, 2010

Dictatorships and Double Standards, Part II

Robert L. Paquette

Professor Paquette responds to the controversy generated this summer after Hamilton College sought to censor his NAS article.

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August 18, 2010

A Debate on the Higher Ed "Business Model"

George Leef

Last February, I participated in a debate organized by the Miller Center of Public Affairs and broadcast on PBS. That was one in a series of debates on issues of national importance the Miller Cente......

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August 18, 2010

Collegiate Press Roundup 8-18-10

Glenn Ricketts

Student journalists tackle gay marriage, weird psychology studies and state liquor regulations.

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August 18, 2010

5 Consequences of Administrative Bloat

Ashley Thorne

What happens to higher education when universities are dominated by administrators?

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August 17, 2010

Ladies First? Here Comes the OCR

Glenn Ricketts

Gender equity full timers are at it again - you didn't really think, did you, that they'd run out of things to complain about? The earth-shaking injustice in their minds this time centers on......

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