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July 15, 2010

More Millennials Need to Work at McDonalds

Jason Fertig

Advice to recent college graduates: get a job, anywhere.

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July 14, 2010

Ben Wildavsky's Book on the Globalization of Higher Ed

George Leef

 That's the subject of my Clarion Call today. I like some aspects of the book. Best of all is Wildavsky's argument that we should abandon educational mercantilism -- the notion that nat......

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July 14, 2010

The Growing Realization that the Higher Ed Emperor is Wearing No Clothes

George Leef

The careful image campaign that the higher ed establishment has conducted for decades seems to be wearing off, if this Washington Examiner piece is any indication. The writer observes that lots of A......

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July 14, 2010

A Click of the Mouse, a Turn of the Page

Brian T. Johnson

David Brooks of the New York Times writes a fine column on the power of books in the age of the internet. His observations are prompted by a study which finds that low income elementary school stude......

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July 14, 2010

Sustainability at Universities a "Feel-Good" Term...No Comment

Ashley Thorne

Sustainability can be "a plastic phrase that all adhere to with varying invested meanings."

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