August 20, 2010

Building a 21st Century Syllabus

David Clemens

Professors these days have to cover their backs when writing syllabi, writes David Clemens.

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August 20, 2010

Question of the Week: Why Did You Choose Your College?

Ashley Thorne

We're starting a new "Question of the Week" series. We'll have a new higher-education-related question every week. To answer, leave a comment on this article, email us, or respond via Facebo......

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August 19, 2010

Real Ethics Education

Jason Fertig

Ethics courses should make moral decisions personal, argues Jason Fertig.

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August 19, 2010

Dictatorships and Double Standards, Part II

Robert L. Paquette

Professor Paquette responds to the controversy generated this summer after Hamilton College sought to censor his NAS article.

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August 18, 2010

A Debate on the Higher Ed "Business Model"

George Leef

Last February, I participated in a debate organized by the Miller Center of Public Affairs and broadcast on PBS. That was one in a series of debates on issues of national importance the Miller Cente......

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August 18, 2010

Collegiate Press Roundup 8-18-10

Glenn Ricketts

Student journalists tackle gay marriage, weird psychology studies and state liquor regulations.

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August 18, 2010

5 Consequences of Administrative Bloat

Ashley Thorne

What happens to higher education when universities are dominated by administrators?

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August 17, 2010

Ladies First? Here Comes the OCR

Glenn Ricketts

Gender equity full timers are at it again - you didn't really think, did you, that they'd run out of things to complain about? The earth-shaking injustice in their minds this time centers on......

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August 17, 2010

Ravitch Repentant

Peter Cohee

Peter Cohee reviews Diane Ravitch's book, a partial volte-face, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education.

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August 16, 2010

Green Propaganda Popping Up All Over

Candace de Russy

In accord with a national effort to update the “No Child Left Behind Act” with an environmental component -- and renaming it the “No Child Left Inside Act&rdquo......

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