April 8, 2011

Collegiate Press Roundup

Glenn Ricketts

Student journalists assess military operations in Libya, the utility of profiling potential dictators, the lack of genuine debate on campus and the impact of proposed GOP budget cuts.

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April 7, 2011

Quote of the Day

Ashley Thorne

From a letter to the editor of the Gonzaga Bulletin.

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April 7, 2011

Ask a Scholar: The Path to a Finance MBA

Jason Fertig

How should I chart my course toward an MBA in Finance?

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April 6, 2011

Federal Student Aid Helps Colleges, Not Students

George Leef

That is the finding of a recent study done by Robert Martin and Andrew Gillen for the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and I write about it in this week’s Pope Center Clarion......

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April 6, 2011

Reviving the True, the Good, and the Beautiful

Ashley Thorne

Ashley Thorne attends a meeting of the Philadelphia Society.

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April 6, 2011

Cronon's Whirlwind

Peter Wood

Efforts to access a professor’s e-mail may be petty but aren’t necessarily a violation of academic freedom.

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April 5, 2011

Telling It Like It Is

George Leef

Professor Christina Hoff Sommers has written a wonderful review of Andrew Ferguson’s new book Crazy U. 

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April 5, 2011

God Loves Diversity and Justice...No Comment

Ashley Thorne

An event at SMU's school of theology brings together progressive scholars from across the spectrum of identity groups.

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April 5, 2011

Video: Richard Vedder on the "Nearly-Everyone-Should-Go-to-College" Idea

Richard Vedder, president of the CCAP, interviewed with Inside Academia this week on the economics of college education and on why tuition costs have gotten to be so high.

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April 5, 2011

Crania Academia

Peter Wood

The academy undermines itself when it belittles the efforts of earlier generations of scholars.

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