A Politicized Introductory Government Course at NC State
May 22, 2013 by George Leef |
George Leef weighs in on the debate on how much progressive professors influence their students.
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Here’s One Writing Prof Who Gets Results
May 08, 2013 by George Leef |
To teach students how to write well, explains John Maguire, train them to use active verbs and build good sentences.
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An Embarrassing Portrait of a State Flagship University
May 01, 2013 by George Leef |
Paying for the Party confirms many of your worst fears about big state universities.
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What if the Best College for You is UnCollege?
Apr 24, 2013 by George Leef |
Dale Stephens answers ten questions about his new book Hacking Your Education.
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New Chancellor at UNC—Good Move or Blunder?
Apr 17, 2013 by George Leef |
Carol Folt, chancellor-elect comes from Dartmouth, an Ivy League college that has one-seventh the students and no athletic scholarships.
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What Will Higher Ed Look Like in 2020?
Apr 10, 2013 by George Leef |
Vance Fried writes about rapidly changing technologies and its effect on higher education.
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It’s Almost As If We’d Remained British
Apr 02, 2013 by George Leef |
In Britain too an obscenely large number of young people with a university education will not be able to find a job that matches their expectations.
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The Implausible “Stereotype Threat” Excuse
Mar 28, 2013 by George Leef |
Defenders of affirmative action must work hard to explain away a serious problem: the tendency for the students admitted due to preferences to do relatively poorly in their coursework.
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Little imagination in the Gates Foundation papers to “reimagine” federal…
Mar 27, 2013 by George Leef |
The Gates Foundation commissions 15 papers on “reimagining” federal student aid.
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What goes beyond the academic pale?
Mar 20, 2013 by George Leef |
What are the limits for academic departments when inviting speakers to campus?
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The Future of the Humanities
Mar 13, 2013 by George Leef |
The humanities, once the core of higher education, have fallen on hard times.
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Colleges Squelching Free Speech and Thought
Mar 11, 2013 by George Leef |
Thanks to unconstitutional university speech codes, students are losing their intellectual edge.
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Becoming Right—Another Load of Useless Academic Research
Mar 06, 2013 by George Leef |
George Leef reviews Becoming Right.
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Here’s Some of that Famous Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
Feb 27, 2013 by George Leef |
Taxpayers lose $1 billion or more a year to fraudulent use of Pell grants.
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The “Unfair” Campaign is Invited to UW-Superior
Feb 15, 2013 by George Leef |
UW-Superior endorses a tendentious concept of fairness.
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