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October 28, 2009

Sisyphus and Higher Education

Jonathan Bean

Those of us laboring for academic reform often feel like Sisyphus, rolling a rock up the hill only to have it come crashing down again. The gods of academe seem to have condemned higher education to......

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October 28, 2009

Intellectual Diversity or Nonsense?

Ashley Thorne

"Our classroom has become an arena for the free exchange of ideas in which everyone's opinion is welcomed and respected." But should everyone's opinion be welcomed and respected? Is that wha......

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October 27, 2009

Neander-Thoughts: Reply to Steiner

Peter Wood

Does academic freedom mean I can ignore the terms of my grant? University of Alaska Professor Richard Steiner thinks so and challenges the NAS to rescind an award to a university president who got in......

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October 26, 2009

On Fat Studies

Glenn Ricketts

Abigail Alger at Reformer's Blog has a good article on "Why Fat Studies (and All Identity Studies) Hurt Higher Education": But Fat Studies, like all identity studies, begins with the end......

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