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July 20, 2010

Academia Hostile to Conservatives? The Jury's Still Out

Ashley Thorne

Is there a strong bias against conservatives in higher education? Researchers have produced numerous studies to examine this question. They have sought to measure bias quantitatively through various......

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July 20, 2010

College Tuition vs. Home Prices vs. CPI...No Comment

Ashley Thorne

Chart: is college education the next bubble set to burst?

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July 19, 2010

A Pervasive Person from Porlock

David Clemens

The Regents of the University of California just voted to embrace a pilot program testing the efficacy of an online undergraduate degree.  Until now, like most research universities, UC has bee......

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July 19, 2010

Diversity? Of Course We Have Diversity

Glenn Ricketts

If you haven't already done so, check out this piece by Ross Douthat in the New York Times. Following up on Russell Nieli's compelling reasearch, which we referenced here last week, Douthat......

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July 19, 2010

"Climategate": A Different Perspective

Kerry Emanuel

An MIT professor of meteorology urges "Climategate" commentators to make a distinction between climate science and politicization.

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