May 27, 2011

ROTC Back At Yale

Glenn Ricketts

Yale University has announced that ROTC - after a 40-year banishment - will be reinstated on campus at the beginning of Fall semester, 2012.

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May 27, 2011

Radio: Peter Wood on WGN 720 on Sustainability

Peter Wood discusses the harmful effect sustainability ideology has on higher education.

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May 27, 2011

Collegiate Press Roundup

Glenn Ricketts

College news flaks provide copy on the Palestinian-Israeli mess, student eating disorders, threats to civil liberties and summer romances with your ex.

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May 26, 2011

How Campus Ethnic Groups Drive Political Conformity: An Interview with Brittney Morrett

Ashley Thorne

A recent college graduate reflects on a Latino fraternity's decision to officially denounce laws restricting illegal immigration.

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May 26, 2011

Vanishing Act

Peter Wood

Peter Wood discusses NAS's new research report on what has happened to Western-history survey courses in the last half-century.

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May 25, 2011

Changing the Incentives in College Teaching

George Leef

In this week’s Pope Center Clarion Call, I continue with the topic that took center stage at our event on May 10 — the low quality of many college courses.

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May 25, 2011

Abigail Thernstrom on Room for Debate

Ashley Thorne

NAS member Abigail Thernstrom weighs in on the question, "Is anti-white bias a problem?"

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May 25, 2011

Excellence at Colby...No Comment

Ashley Thorne

At Colby, excellence means doing whatever you want.

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May 23, 2011

Video: Jane Shaw on Great Books

"There are so many faculty members who have rejected all these great writings of the past."

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May 23, 2011

Totems in America

Peter Wood

Peter Wood defends the CUNY trustee who opposed an honorary degree for playwright Tony Kushner.

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