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March 24, 2011

Ask a Scholar: Graduation Rates with Pell Grants

Matthew Denhart

Has there been a report made comparing graduation rates with and without Pell Grants?

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March 23, 2011

Why Are Most College Professors Liberal? New Studies Investigate

Ashley Thorne

This week Neil Gross and his colleagues released two new studies analyzing clues as to why the majority of professors are politically liberal. They focus on graduate school. What sort of person goes t......

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March 23, 2011

Betrayed by Higher Ed

David Clemens

My former student Joshua, now ambivalently quartered at UC Santa Cruz (home of the fightin’ Banana Slugs and currently under Federal investigation for systemic anti-Semitism), has an a......

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March 23, 2011

Looking for Answers? Ask a Scholar!

Ashley Thorne

NAS is partnering with Intellectual Takeout to answer questions that call for scholarly judgment and can't be answered by Wikipedia. 

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March 23, 2011

Can Innovation Transform Higher Education?

George Leef

In this week’s Pope Center Clarion Call, Burck Smith, the entrepreneur behind StraighterLine, writes about the prospects for dramatic change through innovation in higher education. Innovation......

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