July 27, 2016

California Takes Aim at Religious Freedom

Chance Layton

A new bill targets religious colleges and strips attending students of state grants. 

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July 25, 2016

Books With Spines: The Complete List

National Association of Scholars

The complete list of Books With Spine suggestions.

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July 21, 2016

Final Advice for the Untenured Conservative Humanist

Mark Bauerlein

Part 3: Service. When you join a committee, you either make your colleagues' workdays easier or make them harder. If the latter, they will remember the fact and it may very well come up at te......

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July 21, 2016

More Advice for the Untenured Conservative Humanist

Mark Bauerlein

Part 2: Teaching. Sage-on-the-stage, the flipped classroom? No need for that. Just avoid a few crucial missteps. Plus: How to raise your students’ grades without inflating them. From First......

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July 21, 2016

Some Advice for the Untentured Conservative Humanist

Mark Bauerlein

Part 1: Research. If you are an untenured humanities who is also a religious or social conservative, the bar is set higher for you. Mark Bauerlein is here to offer advice to the untenured professor.&n......

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July 20, 2016

Canada’s Crusade Against Fossil Fuels

Rachelle Peterson

Frontier Centre for Public Policy releases a report illuminating the failed agenda of fossil fuel divestment. 

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July 11, 2016

AAUP Meeting Unanimously Backs Melissa Click--But Why?

Peter Wood

In Minding the Campus, NAS president Peter Wood discusses authority on campus.

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July 8, 2016

The Death of Campus Free Speech -- and How to Revive It

It’s getting harder to tell the difference between real news about colleges and the Onion’s parodies. 

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June 27, 2016

Summer 2016 Academic Questions: Infringements

National Association of Scholars

The new issue of Academic Questions features essays depicting intrusions on free inquiry, freedom of thought, freedom to teach, and freedom to learn.

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June 27, 2016

APEH: A Critique by Prof. James Tracy

James D. Tracy

Professor James Tracy critiques the AP European History Course and Exam Description.

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