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University Speaker Series: Arab Feminism, Black Feminism, and "A Southern Queer Love Story"...No Comment
A program on gender and diversity at the University of Richmond will explore "emancipatory ideas of social justice" this fall.
How Colleges Have Given Up on Educating Your Child...No Comment
A new book is a useful "roadmap for parents on how to steer clear of the worst of [college campuses]."
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- Last on 08/12/2010
10 Commandments for Professors and Staff...No Comment
"Hippocratic oaths" for higher education include "I will dare to know," "I will be open-minded," and "I will be transparent."
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- Last on 08/05/2010
College Tuition vs. Home Prices vs. CPI...No Comment
Chart: is college education the next bubble set to burst?
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- Last on 07/27/2010
Final Destination for Harvard Finals...No Comment
Chester Finn (Harvard '65) and Mickey Muldoon (Harvard '07) lament the end of final exams in Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Sustainability at Universities a "Feel-Good" Term...No Comment
Sustainability can be "a plastic phrase that all adhere to with varying invested meanings."
Pets in Dorms...No Comment
Bring your pit bull to class? Colleges welcome quadraped companions.
Race-Based Graduation Celebrations...No Comment
Universities such as Chico State are planning Asian, Latino, and Black graduation ceremonies.
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- Last on 05/19/2010
How to Attract Undocumented Students...No Comment
A June conference aims to help diversity directors and minority recruiters woo illegal immigrants.
De-Growth Conference...No Comment
Participants at a meeting in Vancouver will look for ways to shrink the economy in the name of sustainability.
Ark of Hope for the Earth Charter...No Comment
The UN sustainability manifesto endorsed by many U.S. colleges and universities has its own 200-pound "ark" for transportation.
Update: Top Ten Books for College Students...Still No Comment
Top reading on campus today includes Nightlight, a parody of the bestseller Twilight by Harvard satirists, and Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea.
Newsletter from BAMN...No Comment
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 Proposition 209, which bans racial preferences in California.
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- Last on 03/18/2010
College Boom...No Comment
From 1973 to 2007, the percentage of students who enroll in college jumped 20%.
Debating Diversity at Smith College...No Comment
Two contrasting student views of the "main topic" at Smith College.
Going Green is Part of Social Integrity? No Comment
"An Honor Code must link social integrity with ecological sustainability," says a student. Is that really so?
Ivy League Sex Education...No Comment
It's Sex Week at Yale.
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- Last on 02/09/2010
Politics of Scarcity at Penn State...No Comment
"The class does not claim to present an evenly balanced assessment."
Social Role of the University...No Comment
A 1962 newspaper clipping recaps the message of a campus speaker who asked, "What is the university's fundamental social obligation?"
Top 10 Books for College Students...No Comment
Popular campus reads today include Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters and World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War.
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This one takes the cake: http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2010/02/08/if-only-her-boobs-could-play-the-drums/ (not necessarily safe for work)
by AdamKissel Posted on 02/08/2010
If there wasn't the war on all things male, if traditional (circa 1950s) boy & girl events were permitted to happen like they once did, I doubt that there would either be a need for nor tolerance of this foolishness. And why am I often reminded of Orwell's (1984) "Anti-Sex League"?
by Ed Posted on 02/09/2010