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January 21, 2010

Social Role of the University...No Comment

Ashley Thorne

A 1962 newspaper clipping recaps the message of a campus speaker who asked, "What is the university's fundamental social obligation?"

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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 15, 2010

NAS Urges Court to Rule Racial Preferences at U Texas Unconstitutional

Ashley Thorne

The NAS has signed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin.

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January 14, 2010

Book Review: Voting Rights - And Wrongs, The Quest for Racially Fair Elections

Ed Cutting

A review of a new book about the Voting Rights Act by NAS Board of Advisors member Abigail Thernstrom.

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January 13, 2010

Making Higher Education Count

Ashley Thorne

How do we know whether American universities are really educating students?

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