November 13, 2009

Less May Be More

Mitchell Langbert

Barbara Bowen, the president of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC), the  faculty union of the City University of New York (CUNY), circulated an e-mail asking union members to protest creatio......

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November 12, 2009

Second Life Duty? Seriously?

Ashley Thorne

Second Life, a virtual "world" resembling a video game, enables people to interact with one another via avatars - digitized, animated versions of themselves. The creepy, sexual, Secon......

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November 12, 2009

CSU Chico Buckles Down on Employees' Mileage

Ashley Thorne

A faculty member at California State University, Chico, sent me the following email from the director of the university's institute for sustainable development: From: McNall, Scott Sent......

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November 12, 2009

Higher Ed Reform Ideas

George Leef

In this week's Pope Center Clarion Call, Jane Shaw discusses ideas for change in higher education that she has come across in several recent conferences. The common thread is that the ideas she......

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November 12, 2009

Political Correctness Versus Academic Freedom

George Leef

Economics professor Walter Block doesn't accept the politically correct feminist doctrine that the average earnings differential between men and women is due to employment discrimination and for......

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November 12, 2009

Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1922-2009)

Ashley Thorne

The National Association of Scholars mourns the passing of Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1922-2009), who served as a member of our Board of Advisors along with his wife Mary Lefkowitz.

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November 12, 2009

Election 2008: The University's Long Shadow 2

Peter Wood

How the 2008 election illustrates the reigning narratives that guide higher education.

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November 10, 2009

Guide to Norwegian Universities Seeking to Boycott Israel

Michael Krauss

David Harris of the American Jewish Committee provides some guidance to Norwegians who want to commit covert anti-Semitism. Here's what they must do without: http://tinyurl.com/yavlgfm.

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November 10, 2009

Student Blogs: Speaking Truth to Pooh-bahs

Jonathan Bean

In a previous post, I noted how military bloggers are writing the "first pages of history." Likewise, student bloggers are offering a place to speak out against the abuses on their campuses: from of......

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November 10, 2009

'Brainy' Cult Lessons in NYC

Candace de Russy

So brain-dead is much of contemporary education that, at first blush, one might be tempted at least to give the benefit of the doubt to a "Brain Education" program in which thousands of New York Cit......

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