November 23, 2009

SLO Challenge Goes to PERB

David Clemens

The November-December issue of CCA Advocate contains a front page story on how Lassen Community College is challenging Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) with the California Public Employmen......

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November 23, 2009

Climate Conspiracy: U.K., U.S. "ClimateGates"

Jonathan Bean

My friends at NAS.org have posted on the “Climate Conspiracy” that broke when hackers revealed global warming scientists had apparently manipulated data, organized attacks on skeptics, a......

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November 23, 2009

WaPo Story on Job Market for Recent Grads

Ken Daniszewski

In case you missed it, there was a remarkable story by Eli Saslow in yesterday's Washington Post about the terrible job market facing recent college grads. Saslow's article illustrates the p......

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November 23, 2009

The Global Warming Debate, Peer Review and University Science

Mitchell Langbert

Dr. Tim Ball has written an article in the November 21 Canada Free Press in which he calls leading climatologists "frauds."  He bases this  on computer-based information obtained by someon......

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November 23, 2009

The Spirit That Makes a College

Ken Daniszewski

Given the problems facing higher education today, this speech on the purpose of college delivered by Justice Wendell Phillips Stafford at the Sesqui-Centennial of Dartmouth College in 1919 seems as......

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November 23, 2009

Update on Hacker's Release of Files Suggesting Academic Global Warming Conspiracy

Candace de Russy

Many professors in the humanities and social sciences have been taking heat for years about the quality and integrity - in particular, the tendentiousness - of their research and teaching. But,......

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November 23, 2009

California Tuition Turmoil

Peter Wood

Protesters at the University of California have some demands that reflect ignorance of basic economics.

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November 23, 2009

Teeth-Bared Teachers' Ed

Peter Wood

The University of Minnesota looks to make race, class, and gender politics the “overarching framework” for teacher education.

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November 23, 2009

Stories We're Watching

Peter Wood

Climate conspiracy, teeth-bared teachers’ ed, California tuition turmoil, a punchy professor—it’s been a busy fortnight in higher ed.

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November 23, 2009

Climate Conspiracy

Peter Wood

Hacked emails show evidence of longstanding scientific misconduct by advocates of global warming theory. This scandal should alter the burden of proof in the global warming debate.

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