Reports2005
The Politicization of the Pennsylvania Public University System
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Report on Testimony before a Select Committee of
the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
2004
The Changing Shape of the River:
Affirmative Action and Recent Social Science Research
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By Russell Nieli,
Princeton University,
Politics Department
2002
Ethics, Enron, and American Higher Education: An NAS/Zogby Poll of College Seniors
What Do College Graduates Know?
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From the Arizona Association of Scholars,
Prepared by Michael K. Block,
Professor of Economics and Law,
University of Arizona,
and
Robert J. Franciosi
with
Melissa Geiger
2001
Race and Higher Education
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Why Justice Powell's Diversity Rationale For Racial Preferences in Higher Education Must Be Rejected, by THOMAS E. WOOD,
Executive Director,
California Association of Scholars
and
MALCOLM J. SHERMAN,
Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics,
State University of New York at Albany
1996
The Dissolution of General Education: 1914-1993
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For the greater part of the twentieth century, America's leading colleges and universities were strongly committed to providing undergraduates with a broad and rigorous exposure to major areas of knowledge. During the last thirty years this commitment largely vanished, according to a detailed study of fifty prestigious institutions.