July 23, 2010

Keep John Galt Off Campus

George Leef

In today's Pope Center piece, my colleague Jay Schalin writes about the flap over the fact that some colleges have accepted funds from BB&T Foundation with the proviso that the money be used......

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July 23, 2010

Let's Give Diversity the Gate

Glenn Ricketts

I could be wrong, but in the wake of all the mudwrestling that's followed the NAACP's recent branding of Tea Partiers as racists, I think that the ideological fulcrum of the "diversity" deba......

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July 23, 2010

Video: Eugene Genovese Honors NAS

National Association of Scholars

NAS has "defended beleaguered professors and students who otherwise would not have had a chance," says Genovese.

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July 23, 2010

The Scandal Goes On

Ashley Thorne

Students continue to be punished for their beliefs in schools of social work and counseling.

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July 23, 2010

Map: Proportion of American Adults with College Degrees

Ashley Thorne

Achieving President Obama's goal of becoming the world's most-educated nation will require approximately doubling the size of higher education. Is that a good thing?

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July 22, 2010

Striving for Socio-Economic Diversity

George Leef

In this Chronicle post, Richard Kahlenberg responds to some criticism (which he labels as "right" and "left") of his signature issue, namely promoting socio-economic diversity as another criterion i......

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July 22, 2010

Campuses''Chokepoint Charlies'

Candace de Russy

Tom Blumer observes that our leftist universities and their ilk possess and abuse their power to destroy careers and control people's lives. The communists, he says, constructed checkpoints, whe......

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July 21, 2010

The Adams Case and the First Amendment

George Leef

In this week's Pope Center Clarion Call, Professor Donald Downs (author of Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus) discusses the lawsuit UNC-Wilmington professor Mike Adams has brought agai......

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July 21, 2010

Collegiate Press Roundup 7-21-10

Glenn Ricketts

Student journalists tackle state politics, classics and contempory social malaise and why Kansas isn't cool.

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