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February 3, 2011

Higher Education: Public Good or Public Bad?

George Leef

In this week’s Pope Center Clarion Call, Jane Shaw considers the question whether higher education is a “public good.” In economics parlance, public goods are goods that the free mar......

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February 3, 2011

Ask a Scholar: Economic Freedom and Well-Being

Ashley Thorne

Does a country's level of economic freedom affect the standard of living of its people?

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February 3, 2011

Lumina's New Degree Profile: As Elusive as the Snark

Peter Wood

Peter Wood questions whether American higher education needs an "outcomes framework," or whether we'd be better equipped with something more like a core curriculum.

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February 1, 2011

Rich Vedder on Academically Adrift

George Leef

Rich Vedder has an essay today on Minding the Campus in which he discusses the “sniping” at that most inconvenient book (inconvenient for the higher education establishment, anyway) Acad......

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February 1, 2011

Freshman Profile: Already Liberal

Glenn Ricketts

The current CHE features some survey data about the attitudes of last Fall's incoming college freshman class. In the first place, they think that they're pretty smart.

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