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March 3, 2010

My Retrospective on the PBS College Debate

George Leef

In this week's Pope Center Clarion Call is my retrospective on the debate I participated in last week. The question was the supposed need for the US to graduate more students from college in ord......

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March 3, 2010

The Data-Driven Classroom

David Clemens

I am still jazzed by the techno-pitchman’s hype last week about clickers, assessment, and SLOs, and I know clickers are the future of edubiz!  Clickers generate tsunamis of admin&......

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March 3, 2010

Chivalry Lives: An Interview with Blayne Bennett

Ashley Thorne

Gentlemanliness is not dead; it's just dormant, says the Network of enlightened Women.

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March 2, 2010

Phoney Hate Crime at UC San Diego

Glenn Ricketts

Here we go again with what's become a familiar and increasingly frequent scenario on American College campuses: another hate crime false alarm, this time at the University of California, San Die......

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March 1, 2010

New AAC&U Study on Employer Views

George Leef

Last Friday, the Pope Center released this article wherein I took a critical look at the latest study from the AAC&U, a survey of employer views regarding college graduates and their workforce n......

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