June 15, 2011

FERPA -- Another Case of Federal Overreach?

George Leef

In this week's Pope Center Clarion Call, Steven Roy Goodman takes a critical look at FERPA (the Family and Educational Rights Privacy Act) and argues that it often impedes access to key informat......

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June 15, 2011

Admissions Angst Over Race Checkboxes Highlights Underlying Problems

Ashley Thorne

College admissions offices wrestle with the bewildering contortions of race-based admissions.

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June 14, 2011

Facebook Gets Multicultural About China and Censorship

Jonathan Bean

In a recent article, the Wall Street Journal quotes Mark Zuckerberg, the kid from Harvard who heads the CEO of a company-not-yet-public. (Goldman-Sachs VIP insiders only, please). What disturbed me......

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June 14, 2011

Boys and Girls: No Longer Together at Catholic U

Glenn Ricketts

The president of Catholic University announced yesterday in this Wall Street Journal piece that, starting next Fall, his school would begin a phased return to single-sex dorms for undergraduates.

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June 14, 2011

Video: Robert Weissberg on Affirmative Action in the Academy

Political scientist Bob Weissberg reflects on campus affirmative action policies.

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June 14, 2011

Multiculturalism in a Different Key

Glenn Ricketts

A look at multiculturalism through a different lens.

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June 13, 2011

Florida State Brouhaha Is Much Ado About Nothing

George Leef

So argues Duke professor Michael Munger here. The hard left needs to keep up a stream of pseudo-issues to keep its base whipped up. When the FSU/Koch Foundation flap stops working, they'll repla......

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June 13, 2011

4 Purposes of the University: Idaho State U Faculty Chairman Quotes NAS President

Ashley Thorne

In his speech on Saturday at the AAUP conference, Idaho State University Faculty Senate Chairman Phil Cole said, In the words of Peter Wood, President of the National Association of Scholars, a un......

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June 13, 2011

How to Save the Social Sciences

Peter Wood

NAS President Peter Wood explains how to approach NSF funding in the social sciences during a national budgetary crisis.

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June 13, 2011

Whose Imperative?

Douglas Campbell

The president of CSU-Chico declares that there is a “diversity imperative,” but inadvertently reveals his true agenda.

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