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March 19, 2010

The Diversity Mania Marches On

George Leef

I recently learned that students at UNC-Chapel Hill can become certified "Diversity Advocates." Today's Pope Center piece is about that program. What I discovered was that Chapel Hill's "div......

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March 19, 2010

Inviting Intellectual Vice In

Ashley Thorne

Our universities should be cultivating intellectual virtue, writes Peter Berkowitz, but instead they are making intellectual corruption easy.

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March 19, 2010

Since When is "Liberal" a Code Word for the Right Wing?

Ashley Thorne

The Wall Street Journal picks up the Shimer College story, in which faculty complain that "liberty" and "liberal" are "code words for the right wing."

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March 19, 2010

Monopoly to Marketplace: Diversifying Higher Ed from Inside and Out

Ashley Thorne

NAS is uniquely positioned to influence higher education for the good. As a non-profit organization, we are outside academia, free of its entanglements and able to provide a detached point of view. As......

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