November 3, 2009

LEAPs and Bounds

Ashley Thorne

An initiative spawned of the outcomes assessment movement, Liberal Education & America's Promise (LEAP), sounds boring enough. But what is really going on when the lords of of education go a-L......

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November 2, 2009

Wood Builds Up The American Beaver

Peter Wood

NAS president Peter Wood has a bit in The American Conservative's special books issue (subscription required), under The Best Books You Haven't Read. There he extols the "small, ea......

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November 2, 2009

Berkeley and Barriers

Ashley Thorne

A reader commenting on my post "Teaching Can Be Dangerous" wrote: Speaking of politicization, I have a friend who is applying to a PhD program at Berkeley. He sent me the “personal hist......

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November 2, 2009

Boutique Colleges Can Thrive

George Leef

My Pope Center colleague Jay Schalin writes here about the difficulties that very small colleges face, but also their prospects for success at filling a niche in the vast educational marketplace.

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October 30, 2009

Illinois Fails ACTA Report Card

Ashley Thorne

The American Council of Trustees and Alumni has released a report card on public higher education in the state of Illinois. According to the ACTA press release: The report card, entitled For the P......

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October 30, 2009

Teaching Can Be Dangerous

Ashley Thorne

Cross-posted from NAS.org, "An Unsuccessful Education Can Ruin You": The Chronicle of Higher Education has an article, "Course Reminds Budding Ph.D.'s of the Damage They Can Do," about a semi......

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October 30, 2009

Debate: Operation U Reform

Ashley Thorne

Check out Peter Wood's response to Robert Weissberg's Minding the Campus article, "Rescuing the University."  The debate was also linked on Instapundit.

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October 30, 2009

"An Unsuccessful Education Can Ruin You"

Ashley Thorne

A CUNY graduate professor teaches education ethics; his students discuss the meaning of academic freedom and the question of university neutrality. Now if only all faculty members and administrators t......

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October 29, 2009

Responding to Weissberg

Peter Wood

NAS president Peter Wood has published a response to Robert Weissberg's "Rescuing the University." His response may be found at Minding the Campus.

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October 28, 2009

UNC Radicals Intolerant of Free Speech by Others

George Leef

One day last April, most of the copies of the UNC conservative publication Carolina Journal were stolen. Who dunnit? No evidence was at hand and the matter was forgotten -- until the school's SD......

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