January 19, 2010

Higher Education or Handholding?

George Leef

In yesterday's Pope Center piece, Jay Schalin takes a look at programs in the UNC system that aim at taking the weakest of the incoming students and giving them remedial work in basic math and E......

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January 18, 2010

Gender and Science, Cont'd

Glenn Ricketts

Our friend Christina Hoff Sommers, long a thorn in the side of academic feminism and Women's Studies, is no doubt going to anger them again with her recent posting about the absence of women in......

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January 15, 2010

Three Stories in Diversity News

Ashley Thorne

1. The National Association of Scholars has signed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin. Together with the Pacific Legal Foundation, the American&n......

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January 15, 2010

Gloria Steinem on the Lecture Circuit

George Leef

In this Pope Center piece, Professor Anthony Papalas of East Carolina University writes about an absurd lecture given last November at ECU by Gloria Steinem. She was paid ten grand for an ill-inform......

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January 15, 2010

NAS Urges Court to Rule Racial Preferences at U Texas Unconstitutional

Ashley Thorne

The NAS has signed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin.

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January 14, 2010

The Price of Academic Integrity

Mitchell Langbert

News Busters, the blog of the Media Research Center, reports that the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) has stated that Michael Mann, a Penn State climatological researcher involved......

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January 14, 2010

Another Dystopian Professor

Candace de Russy

Over at Democracy Project, Winfield Myers illustrates anew how intellectually unsound many of our campuses have become by spotlighting the nihilistic Weltanschauung of Andrew March, a young politica......

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January 14, 2010

No Economics Courses Required for UNC Social and Economic Justice Minor

Ashley Thorne

From Division of Labour, via Phi Beta Cons: At UNC-Chapel Hill one can earn a minor in social and economic justice without taking an economics course. See for yourself here (scroll down)......

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January 14, 2010

Book Review: Voting Rights - And Wrongs, The Quest for Racially Fair Elections

Ed Cutting

A review of a new book about the Voting Rights Act by NAS Board of Advisors member Abigail Thernstrom.

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January 13, 2010

Roger Clegg on Why Race-Based Affirmative Action Isn't Worth It

Ashley Thorne

From Minding the Campus: It is personally unfair, passes over better qualified students, and sets a disturbing legal, political, and moral precedent in allowing racial discrimination; it creates r......

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