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January 27, 2010

Four Rented Rooms and a Big Idea: Shimer College at the Crossroads

Peter Wood

A tiny Great Books college in Chicago encounters a clash of ideas.

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January 26, 2010

UMass Med School Will Reserve 12 Seats for Minorities and Low-Income Students

Ashley Thorne

The Boston Globe reports: Under an initiative set to be finalized today, the state’s only public medical school will partner with UMass campuses in Boston, Amherst, Lowell, and Dartmouth to......

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January 26, 2010

Baggage Claim at Williams

Ashley Thorne

Williams College will cancel classes to engage in "pomosexual" poetry performances, politicized art discussions, a "queering communities" panel, and "reclaiming New England's aboriginal history.......

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January 25, 2010

What Good is Accreditation?

George Leef

I have long thought that accreditation is just about useless as a guarantee of quality and integrity in higher education and the article the Pope Center has just released gives additional support to......

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January 25, 2010

Cowboy Up!

David Clemens

If you are a double major in Classical Languages and English Literature at the University of Wyoming, you are saddled with a required diversity class on “literature by and about women, not men.&......

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