Lincoln’s Bicentennial
Feb 12, 2009 by Ashley Thorne, Peter Wood
Happy 200th birthday Abe!
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Sustainabullies
Feb 12, 2009 by Ashley Thorne, Peter Wood
How the sustainability movement self-reproduces
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Update on UW Fox Dean’s Blog
Feb 11, 2009 by Ashley Thorne
The votes are in! This is a story of a university administrator who wrongly assumed that his political posturing would be met with widespread approbation.
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Civilization and the Spirit of Scholarship: On the Continuing Need for the National…
Feb 11, 2009 by Peter Wood
The second in a multi-part series by Peter Wood surveying the past, present, and future of the NAS.
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Stanley Fish and the Storm in Ottowa
Feb 10, 2009 by Peter Wood
Professor Fish blogged in the New York Times about Dennis Rancourt, a self-described anarchist and an advocate of
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Great Books in the News
Feb 09, 2009 by Ashley Thorne
An interview with Bruce Gans
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Brandishing an Apology
Feb 06, 2009 by Ashley Thorne
Faculty call for transparency in art controversy.
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No Maintenance At All: Just Education
Feb 05, 2009 by Ashley Thorne
The Salem campus of SNHU remembers why we go to college in the first place.
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Champlain Ethics
Feb 04, 2009 by Peter Wood
How the University of Vermont waters down character education
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Deferred Maintenance
Feb 03, 2009 by Peter Wood
A call for financial accountability in higher education
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Art for Gold
Feb 03, 2009 by Glenn Ricketts, Peter Wood
Cash flow collides with the higher things at Brandeis.
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Vote on Administrator’s Political Showcasing
Feb 02, 2009 by Ashley Thorne
Should a campus dean use his university platform to advertise his politics? Vote now!
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Electracy What a Tangled Web We Weave
Jan 30, 2009 by Peter Wood
If electronic proficiency replaces literacy, can we be truly whole?
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Shaming the Winners
Jan 29, 2009 by Ashley Thorne
Media hype after a 100-0 basketball game between two small private schools in Dallas exemplified a cultural tendency to vilify success.
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Updike at Rest
Jan 28, 2009 by Peter Wood
Will the great American author's legacy outlive him?
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