October 14, 2008

Hypergelasts

Peter Wood

Are you ever hangry? Do you ever blamestorm? Then expiscate some new words with us.

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October 10, 2008

Hiring Discrimination and Quotas at OSU?

George W. Dent

A statement from the Ohio Association of Scholars about the "Comprehensive Equity" program at OSU, which seeks to increase the number of women appointed to faculty positions in the sciences.

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October 10, 2008

LSU Campaign Retreats to its "Safe Space"

Ashley Thorne

What's with the purple stickers on faculty members' office doors?

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October 9, 2008

Making Allowances

Ashley Thorne

Want to keep students on the track to academic success? Pay them!

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October 9, 2008

Circling Arizona: Mission Creep at a State University

Steven Anderson

An ASU-sponsored research center studies minority health disparities.

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October 6, 2008

UPDATE: CAUT's Empty Accusations

Peter Wood

The AAUP Canadian counterpart tried some unoriginal smears on Argus and NAS; we set the record straight.

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October 2, 2008

The Cave

Peter Wood

It's October - time to pay attention to recent and upcoming trends in higher education, like the student loan crisis, the rise of distance learning, the therapeutic campus, and sustainability.

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October 2, 2008

Debates on Campus

Ashley Thorne

Part of NAS's mission is to "sustain the tradition of civil debate in America

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September 30, 2008

Facebook and the Future of the University

Tom Wood

Will social networking sites like Facebook remove the extracurricular responsibility of the university?

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