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January 20, 2010

Typecasting: Why Nurses are Women, Cops are Conservatives, and Professors are Liberals

Ashley Thorne

A new study concludes that a stereotype keeps conservatives from becoming professors.

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January 19, 2010

Those That REALLY Teach, Can Also DO

Michael Krauss

I was pleased to read this posting in The Lawyerist, entitled Teaching Makes You a Better Lawyer.  This is so true, in my opinion, but it's self-serving when coming from the academy.  ......

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January 19, 2010

Higher Education or Handholding?

George Leef

In yesterday's Pope Center piece, Jay Schalin takes a look at programs in the UNC system that aim at taking the weakest of the incoming students and giving them remedial work in basic math and E......

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January 18, 2010

Gender and Science, Cont'd

Glenn Ricketts

Our friend Christina Hoff Sommers, long a thorn in the side of academic feminism and Women's Studies, is no doubt going to anger them again with her recent posting about the absence of women in......

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January 15, 2010

Three Stories in Diversity News

Ashley Thorne

1. The National Association of Scholars has signed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin. Together with the Pacific Legal Foundation, the American&n......

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