January 26, 2010

UMass Med School Will Reserve 12 Seats for Minorities and Low-Income Students

Ashley Thorne

The Boston Globe reports: Under an initiative set to be finalized today, the state’s only public medical school will partner with UMass campuses in Boston, Amherst, Lowell, and Dartmouth to......

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January 26, 2010

Baggage Claim at Williams

Ashley Thorne

Williams College will cancel classes to engage in "pomosexual" poetry performances, politicized art discussions, a "queering communities" panel, and "reclaiming New England's aboriginal history.......

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January 25, 2010

What Good is Accreditation?

George Leef

I have long thought that accreditation is just about useless as a guarantee of quality and integrity in higher education and the article the Pope Center has just released gives additional support to......

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January 25, 2010

Cowboy Up!

David Clemens

If you are a double major in Classical Languages and English Literature at the University of Wyoming, you are saddled with a required diversity class on “literature by and about women, not men.&......

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January 25, 2010

Reflections of a Community College Professor

John C. Chalberg

We present the reflections of John C. “Chuck” Chalberg, professor of American history for more than thirty years at Normandale Community College in Bloomington, Minnesota.

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January 22, 2010

North Carolina's Scandal-Plagued Higher Ed System

George Leef

In today's Pope Center article, Jane Shaw reviews the rather long list of scandals at UNC institutions in recent years. Are other states better? Or worse?

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January 22, 2010

Free Institutions Program at CUNY?

Mitchell Langbert

The City University of New York still lacks a free institutions program, and Professor Thomas J. Main of Baruch College is aiming to close the gap. 15 months ago Main came within a hair's breadt......

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January 22, 2010

Politics of Scarcity at Penn State...No Comment

Glenn Ricketts

"The class does not claim to present an evenly balanced assessment."

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January 21, 2010

Is the University Obligated to Educate Everyone?

Ashley Thorne

Cross posted from NAS.org From time to time we cite without comment various items from articles, books, websites, and other sources. We don't comment on these items (at least in w......

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January 21, 2010

Social Role of the University...No Comment

Ashley Thorne

A 1962 newspaper clipping recaps the message of a campus speaker who asked, "What is the university's fundamental social obligation?"

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