June 16, 2010

The Avalanche of Useless Academic Research

George Leef

In this Chronicle article, Mark Bauerlein, Mohamad Gad-el-Hak, Wayne Grody, Bill McKelvey and Stanley Trimble discuss the vast outpouring of academic research that is mostly redundant and wasteful. No......

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June 15, 2010

Science and Gender Equity, II

Glenn Ricketts

Today's New York Times features John Tierney's followup to his piece last week about attempts to legislate "gender equity," which he concludes will never work: a mixture of innate biological......

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June 14, 2010

2010 Spring Semester Highlights

Ashley Thorne

50 of our top articles this year.

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June 11, 2010

They Really, Really Don't Like Us

Glenn Ricketts

Possibly you’ve had the chance to read Peter Wood’s piece, Shut Up, They Explained. This was a response to the many ill-tempered, intemperate comments attached to the Chronicle of Higher......

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June 10, 2010

NAS President Speaks on Online Ed on My9 News

Ashley Thorne

Cross-posted from NAS.org NAS President Peter Wood appeared on New Jersey's My9 News on Wednesday along with Todd Zipper, co-founder of Test Drive College Online, in a segment on the pros a......

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June 10, 2010

How Dense are AAUW Members?

George Leef

The American Association of University Women Action Network is pushing for passage of an idiotic bit of federal meddling in the labor market, the Paycheck Fairness Act. We're told that this is "......

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June 10, 2010

Video: Peter Wood Talks About Online Ed on My9 News

NAS president takes on the pros and cons of online education.

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June 9, 2010

The Diversity Mania and Discrimination Against Asians

George Leef

In this week's Pope Center Clarion Call, Roger Clegg addresses the question of discrimination against Asian students. Of course, selective colleges don't say, "We're against those geeky,......

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June 9, 2010

College Degree No Guarantee of Prosperity

George Leef

This piece in The Chronicle reveals what many higher ed critics of known for years -- getting a college degree is no guarantee of prosperity. In fact, many Americans with degrees live in poverty. Th......

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June 9, 2010

Man Up!

David Clemens

Back in January I wrote about anti-male prejudice at the University of Wyoming here and mentioned the birth of a new “male positive” discipline called Male Studies.  An organizing w......

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