April 27, 2010

Indoctrinate Our Kids and Green My Parents

Ashley Thorne

Today kids are taught to be eco-warriors...and re-educate their parents.

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April 27, 2010

How to Attract Undocumented Students...No Comment

Ashley Thorne

A June conference aims to help diversity directors and minority recruiters woo illegal immigrants.

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April 26, 2010

Campus Protest: "The Whole Capitalist System Has to Go"

Ashley Thorne

I stumbled upon this picture in Flickr today: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rmontgom/4408200024/ This is an unidentified image from the March 4 protests, a nationwide exercise in angry socialist......

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April 26, 2010

CUNY Professor Wins $250K from Faculty Union

Mitchell Langbert

Last fall the CUNY faculty union, the Professional Staff Congress (PSC), settled Professor David Seidemann's law suit by paying Seidemann's pro bono attorney, Jones, Day, $250,000 in legal f......

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April 26, 2010

Freedom from Bad Academic Writing

Jonathan Bean

The following column on George Orwell's advice to free students from bad academic writing is worth reading: http://chronicle.com/article/Bad-WritingBad-Thinking/65031/?sid=ja&utm_source=ja......

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April 26, 2010

Steve Balch Responds to Ad Hominem Newspaper Attack

Steve Balch

NAS Chairman Steve Balch answers a sneer against NAS and its efforts to revive the study of Western civilization.

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April 26, 2010

Is Higher Education Facing Economic Peril?

Herbert London

NAS board member Herbert London suggests ways colleges and universities can save money in this time of budget cuts.

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April 23, 2010

Textbooks: The Feds Should Keep Out

George Leef

In today's Pope Center article, Professors Don Boudreaux and Roger Meiners write about the recent law that lets the federal camel get its nose under the textbook tent. The argue that the law wil......

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April 23, 2010

Finishing a Recent Article

Daniel Asia

I have recently finished an article for a future Academic Questions on the difficult place in which Classical Music finds itself in the Academy. I also suggest that the problem is a symptomatic of a......

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April 23, 2010

The Saga of Barbaric Paul Robeson HS

Candace de Russy

A teen went public about her failing high school -- a sick, sick place in Brooklyn where students have sex and smoke dope in the stairwells, where pregnancies and smoking pot are the stuff of e......

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