May 12, 2011

Video: The Federal Takeover of Higher Education

Peter Wood spoke about the effects of federal direct lending on rising generations and higher education at a panel with the Family Research Council.

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May 11, 2011

Media Over-Reports Cancer Studies

Alex B. Berezow

The media notoriously over-report epidemiology studies. One day, coffee is bad for you; the next day, it's the fountain of youth.

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May 11, 2011

CUNY Trustees Stand Up Against Faculty's Anti-Israel Sentiments - In Vain

NYAS

A statement of NAS's affiliate the New York Association of Scholars on the Kushner controversy.

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May 11, 2011

A Meeting of the Minds for Higher Ed Reform

Ashley Thorne

A Pope Center event brings together a plurality of views to find common goals for higher education reform.

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May 9, 2011

Peter Wood: Kushner a "PC Trifecta"

Ashley Thorne

In the Chronicle's blog Innovations, NAS president Peter Wood weighs in on the controversy over the CUNY board's decision not to award Tony Kushner an honorary degree. Kushner has received 1......

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May 9, 2011

Think You've Got It Tough? Not As Bad As Female Academics

Glenn Ricketts

At least that's what you'd think if you didn't read anything besides the Chronicle of Higher Education or its online counterpart, Inside Higher Education. I've long lost count of the......

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May 9, 2011

CUNY Faculty Union on Kushner: "What, Me Worry?"

Mitchell Langbert

A controversy is raging concerning CUNY Trustee Jeffrey Wiesenfeld's objections to John Jay College's proposal to grant an honorary degree to playwright Tony Kushner.

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May 9, 2011

“O(h no) Canada!” MTV Signature Song Banned

Jonathan Bean

When I grew up in the 1970s and 1980s, the stereotypical bowdlerizers of speech--the people excising "offensive" lyrics and literature--were the uptight blue-nosed sort who feared that "someone, som......

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May 9, 2011

Peter Wood on Eagle Forum Radio: Higher Education "Sustainabullies"

As Phyllis Schlafly's guest on national radio, Peter Wood spoke about the influence of sustainability ideology on our universities and answered questions from callers about what this means for o......

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May 9, 2011

Video: Tom Bethell on Scientific Orthodoxy

"Grant-seeking is enforcing a tremendous orthodoxy within the academic world in science, which is precisely where orthodoxy should not be maintained."

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