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December 14, 2009

Changing the Norms: Sustainability at Penn State

Ashley Thorne

Advocacy - insisting on a certain point of view and suppressing those who dissent - seems to have been the motive behind Michael Mann’s troubling emails. Will Penn State, so nurtured in sustaina......

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December 11, 2009

On Advocacy in the Classroom

Ashley Thorne

A blog on Inside Higher Ed that I pay attention to, Getting to Green, has an interesting discussion about advocacy intruding on higher education. Note that the Getting to Green blogger writes under......

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December 11, 2009

Bias Against Southern Scholarship?

Ashley Thorne

An article in the Chronicle of Higher Ed (subscription required) highlights the Abbeville Institute, which is "an association of scholars in higher education devoted to a critical study of what......

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December 11, 2009

"Diversity" Infection Spreading to Med Schools

George Leef

The mania over "diversity" (that is, preferences for certain people whose ancestry puts them into an "underrepresented" category) has swept through most of American higher education. It's bad en......

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December 11, 2009

Exposed! NAS's Secret Membership Drive

Peter Wood

Time to get the word out about opening our membership "to those who are not in the academic world but care about the future of higher education."

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