March 19, 2010

Since When is "Liberal" a Code Word for the Right Wing?

Ashley Thorne

The Wall Street Journal picks up the Shimer College story, in which faculty complain that "liberty" and "liberal" are "code words for the right wing."

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March 19, 2010

Monopoly to Marketplace: Diversifying Higher Ed from Inside and Out

Ashley Thorne

NAS is uniquely positioned to influence higher education for the good. As a non-profit organization, we are outside academia, free of its entanglements and able to provide a detached point of view. As......

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March 18, 2010

O'Malley v. Karkhanis Settles

Mitchell Langbert

Sharad Karkhanis writes a satirical newsletter, Patriot Returns, that he e-mails to 13,000 faculty and staff of the City University of New York.  His sarcasm can be biting. Susan O'Malley,......

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March 18, 2010

Higher Ed Transparency: Through a Glass Darkly?

Candace de Russy

Are colleges and universities providing misleading information to the public? Are the two public online databases (U-CAN and VSA) to which they voluntarily submit their performance da......

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March 18, 2010

Duncan Donuts

Ashley Thorne

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan insists that “a college degree is still absolutely worth it.” Is he right?

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March 18, 2010

Newsletter from BAMN...No Comment

Ashley Thorne

The thuggish group calling itself the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) is trying to take down Propositio......

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March 18, 2010

Arab Scholars Speak

Peter Wood

An Atlanta conference of the Institute for American Values gathers Middle Eastern intellectuals at the launch of the online journal IjtihadReason.

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March 17, 2010

Reminiscences of Columbia, 1968

Glenn Ricketts

Recently, we took note of a story in the Chronicle of Higher Education which offered a retrospective from a professor whose office had been sacked and his research papers burned by student radicals......

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March 17, 2010

Education Professors Let the Mask Slip

George Leef

Education school professors want us to think that they're experts who only have the best interests of students at heart. No doubt some do, but many are radicals who believe that good teaching me......

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March 17, 2010

Government Higher Ed Takeover Looms, NAS Reports

Ashley Thorne

Federal control of the student loan industry could mean serious unintended consequences for the university.

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