March 23, 2010

RatemyProfessors and Student Customers

Glenn Ricketts

A newly released Kaplan survey seems to support what many instructors have already sensed about the widely popular site, Ratemyprofessors: students actively shop around for faculty members - they'......

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March 23, 2010

Collegiate Press Roundup

Glenn Ricketts

Articles of interest from student newspapers at colleges across the country.

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March 23, 2010

Fanfare on NAS Homepage

Ashley Thorne

NAS.org now greets readers with a festive fanfare; these are the opening bars of Gateways, the title piece of the 2001 album by composer Daniel Asia.

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March 23, 2010

Race Tracking

Ashley Thorne

UMass computer scientists design math tutoring software that matches students with digital coaches according to their race and ethnicity. What message does that send students?

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March 22, 2010

The Left, Pro-Educational Choice?

Candace de Russy

Now here's a novel insight: Greg Forster, a senior fellow at the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, in making the case that school vouchers deliver substantially more educational i......

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March 22, 2010

More on the Political Correctness Front at the UA

Daniel Asia

The Arizona Association of Scholars will be hosting a talk by Robert Maranto on “The Politically Correct University” (his most recent book) next week at the University of Arizona. I have......

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March 19, 2010

The Diversity Mania Marches On

George Leef

I recently learned that students at UNC-Chapel Hill can become certified "Diversity Advocates." Today's Pope Center piece is about that program. What I discovered was that Chapel Hill's "div......

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March 19, 2010

Inviting Intellectual Vice In

Ashley Thorne

Our universities should be cultivating intellectual virtue, writes Peter Berkowitz, but instead they are making intellectual corruption easy.

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Ask a Scholar: What is the True Definition of Latino?

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