August 18, 2010

Collegiate Press Roundup 8-18-10

Glenn Ricketts

Student journalists tackle gay marriage, weird psychology studies and state liquor regulations.

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August 18, 2010

5 Consequences of Administrative Bloat

Ashley Thorne

What happens to higher education when universities are dominated by administrators?

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August 17, 2010

Ladies First? Here Comes the OCR

Glenn Ricketts

Gender equity full timers are at it again - you didn't really think, did you, that they'd run out of things to complain about? The earth-shaking injustice in their minds this time centers on......

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August 17, 2010

Ravitch Repentant

Peter Cohee

Peter Cohee reviews Diane Ravitch's book, a partial volte-face, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education.

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August 16, 2010

Green Propaganda Popping Up All Over

Candace de Russy

In accord with a national effort to update the “No Child Left Behind Act” with an environmental component -- and renaming it the “No Child Left Inside Act&rdquo......

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August 16, 2010

Tenure: Not So Good, Not So Bad Either

George Leef

Tenure has been discussed a lot lately and in today's Pope Center piece, economics professor Roger Meiners weighs in. He likens tenure to unionization. It causes some inefficiency, but can be an......

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August 16, 2010

Will "Millenials" Take to the Classics?

George Leef

In Friday's Pope Center piece, English professor Sarah Adams argues that today's college students ("Millenials"), while often derided for their apparent indifference to serious reading and t......

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August 16, 2010

Comment from a Reader about Credential Inflation

George Leef

Your op-ed relating to credential inflation is on point.  Beyond college credential inflation there is another "credential" inflation virus that has infected the US.  It is the license or......

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August 12, 2010

Financially Failing Colleges

Ashley Thorne

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that 150 colleges have failed the Department of Education's test of financial responsibility this year. That means these colleges could be in danger of ei......

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August 12, 2010

Liberals Begin to See the College "Bubble"

George Leef

Writing for Huffington Post, Anya Kamenetz compares the huge level of student loan debt to the housing bubble. I'm glad to see understanding that we have oversold college spreading, but Kamenetz......

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