December 15, 2009

The Philomath Speaks: An Interview with Anu Garg

Peter Wood

"Words are like air — they are all around us even though we can't see them, and they are just as essential," says Anu Garg, creator of Wordsmith.org.

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December 14, 2009

Businesses Move From Greenwashing to Sincerity, Business Schools Adapt

Ashley Thorne

The Financial Times has an article on how corporations, which formerly touted their commitment to the environment as a marketing ploy, now really believe in the eco-cause. More and more business sch......

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December 14, 2009

Changing the Norms: Sustainability at Penn State

Ashley Thorne

Advocacy - insisting on a certain point of view and suppressing those who dissent - seems to have been the motive behind Michael Mann’s troubling emails. Will Penn State, so nurtured in sustaina......

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December 11, 2009

On Advocacy in the Classroom

Ashley Thorne

A blog on Inside Higher Ed that I pay attention to, Getting to Green, has an interesting discussion about advocacy intruding on higher education. Note that the Getting to Green blogger writes under......

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December 11, 2009

Bias Against Southern Scholarship?

Ashley Thorne

An article in the Chronicle of Higher Ed (subscription required) highlights the Abbeville Institute, which is "an association of scholars in higher education devoted to a critical study of what......

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December 11, 2009

"Diversity" Infection Spreading to Med Schools

George Leef

The mania over "diversity" (that is, preferences for certain people whose ancestry puts them into an "underrepresented" category) has swept through most of American higher education. It's bad en......

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December 11, 2009

Exposed! NAS's Secret Membership Drive

Peter Wood

Time to get the word out about opening our membership "to those who are not in the academic world but care about the future of higher education."

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December 10, 2009

Faculty Member to Administrator Ratio Shrinking at U California

Ashley Thorne

From the blog Remaking the University is an interesting article with charts showing the decline in the ratio between ladder rank faculty and senior management staff at the University of California. Th......

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December 10, 2009

IHS Scholarship for Grad Students Exploring Liberty - Deadline Dec. 31

Ashley Thorne

Our friends at the Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) asked us to let our members and readers know about the scholarships (up to $12K!) they award to graduate students through their Humane Studies F......

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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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