December 9, 2009

Googlegate?

Glenn Ricketts

I wonder what’s going on with Google and Climategate?   Specifically, I mean why doesn’t the premier mega-search resource’s suggestion function work when you enter &ldquo......

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December 9, 2009

It's Not a Magical Incantation

Ashley Thorne

Gary A. Olson of Idaho State University has a good article on "The Limits of Academic Freedom" at the Chronicle of Higher Ed. An excerpt: One chair described a senior professor who missed a substa......

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December 9, 2009

Top Consideration: Not Education, But Money

George Leef

In this week's Pope Center Clarion Call, I write about an enlightening lawsuit involving a demoted dean's allegation that his school deliberately trashed its academic standards to help retain......

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December 9, 2009

National Teach-In Calls on Sustainability Partners to Help "Hide the Decline" in Global Warming Fait

Ashley Thorne

I got this email from the National Teach-In for Global Warming as part of an "Education for Sustainability" listserv to which I subscribe: Dear Colleagues and Friends, The hacked e-mails from clim......

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December 8, 2009

Disagree With Us and We'll Call You Out for Supporting Slavery

Michael Krauss

Now that our leaders have taught us that opposing nationalized health care is supporting slavery, I think it's pretty clear that high school students should be taught that denying global wa......

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December 8, 2009

Supreme Court Will Decide on Religious Student Groups vs. Nondiscrimination Policies

Ashley Thorne

See Inside Higher Ed: Both sides in the case before the court argue that they are defending students from discrimination. "Often university officials don't like the religious groups and we see......

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December 8, 2009

Winter's Not So Happy Without Holidays

Ashley Thorne

From the student newspaper of the University of Massachusetts is an article by Thomas Moore (the student, not the Utopian) about the new policy for U Mass RAs: Don't call it the "holiday season"......

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December 8, 2009

Iranian Students: Beaten, Bloody, But Unbowed

Candace de Russy

AOL provides vivid and heartrending coverage of this week's vicious government suppression of the protest of tens of thousands of courageous students. We can but applaud and echo the f......

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December 8, 2009

Supreme Court to Decide Christian Legal Society v. Martinez

Ashley Thorne

The case aims to settle a longstanding controversy: whether a religious student group, recognized or funded by a public university, has the right to specify that its members must share the group&rsq......

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December 7, 2009

Collegiality or Harrassment? Two Sides of the PC Coin

Mitchell Langbert

At a northeastern college the chair of a department also chaired  a tenure and promotion committee that made a negative decision on an  untenured associate professor.  The associate pro......

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