What Has Happened to the AAUP?
Jun 18, 2013 by Peter Wood |
The AAUP scores higher on politicization than academic freedom at its recent conference.
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Sexuality and Freedom of Speech: Criticism of OCR Continues
Jun 17, 2013 by Glenn Ricketts |
OCR continues to get its lumps from all quarters.
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Seeking Value or Imposing Values?
Jun 17, 2013 by Eric R. Terzuolo |
Dr. Terzuolo responds to the AAC&U's new global learning rubric.
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NAS President to Debate at AAUP Conference
Jun 13, 2013 by Tessa Carter |
Peter Wood will debate issues concerning higher ed at AAUP's Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., this Friday.
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What We’re Reading: NAS Goes to the Beach
Jun 12, 2013 by NAS |
Check out the NAS staff's summer reading recommendations.
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Gender Inequity Among the Gender Equity Enforcers
Jun 12, 2013 by Peter Wood |
In a sample study, NAS found that 83% of Title IX Coordinators are female.
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My review of Neil Gross’s book, concluded
Jun 12, 2013 by George Leef |
George Leef concludes his critque of Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care?
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What Would the Left Do without Emotional Causes?
Jun 11, 2013 by George Leef |
The current mania over fossil fuel divestment tends to be heavy on emotion and light on logic.
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Peter Wood in Society Magazine
Jun 11, 2013 by Ashley Thorne |
NAS president Peter Wood's article, “The Sixties Came Late to Bowdoin,” appears in the current issue of the scholarly journal Society.
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Poll: Public Support for Affirmative Action at an All-Time Low
Jun 11, 2013 by Glenn Ricketts |
No surprise: public support for affirmative action policies has dropped sharply. But it may be for different reasons than some academics think.
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Sexual Harassment: The Real Thing
Jun 10, 2013 by Glenn Ricketts |
This was genuine misconduct, and justice was well served.
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Old-Fashioned Advice to Princeton Women
Jun 06, 2013 by Russell K. Nieli |
Russell Nieli argues that the backlash against Susan Patton's letter to the Daily Princetonian has misunderstood her common-sense counsel.
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Sexual Harassment—The Feds Go Way Too Far
Jun 05, 2013 by Peter Wood |
Peter Wood evaluates the implications of the federal government's "breathtakingly broad definition" of campus sexual harassment.
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I Critique the New Book by Neil Gross
Jun 05, 2013 by George Leef |
Why are professors liberal? George Leef responds to Neil Gross's answer.
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Ask a Scholar: What Will be the Effects of a Local Power Line Upgrade?
Jun 05, 2013 by Charles G. Beaudette |
Is there reason to worry about a planned power line upgrade?
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