March 31, 2011

Collegiate Press Roundup

Glenn Ricketts

Student writers offer their views on sexuality and free speech, the difficulties of banning tobacco on campus, lousy movies and the state of gender equity in the United States.

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March 30, 2011

Ask a Scholar: Third Party Possibilities

Hubert P. van Tuyll

What are the dangers of a third caucus arising in American politics?

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March 30, 2011

Audience Participation

Will Fitzhugh

Students should take responsibility for their own motivation to learn, not rely on teachers to provide it for them.

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March 29, 2011

Diversity Mania in Law Schools

George Leef

This Chronicle article covers a recent symposium on that most horrific of problems, an inadequate level of diversity. The focus of this particular symposium was insufficient diversity in the legal p......

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March 29, 2011

Unnatural Selection

Peter Wood

Peter Wood comments on a new study claiming that self-selection by liberal students explains the leftward tilt of academe.

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March 29, 2011

A Flawed Experiment

Peter Wood

Peter Wood comments on a study that looked for political bias in graduate schools

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March 28, 2011

Is the Internet a Mad, Hallucinating Deity?

David Clemens

In “The Library of Babel,” Jorge Luis Borges imagines a gargantuan Library in which are shelved books that together exhaust all possible combinations of letters.  Obviously, “[f......

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March 28, 2011

William Cronon's Partisan Bloviation

Mitchell Langbert

The University of Wisconsin's Professor William Cronon has involved himself in a partisan Wisconsin battle concerning public employees' bargaining. In his blog he bloviates against the Repub......

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March 28, 2011

Before You Choose That Credential...

Jason Fertig

Jason Fertig modifies tips from the Wall Street Journal for parents of college-bound children.

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March 28, 2011

"Islam in Scholarship and Education" AQ Issue in Print

Ashley Thorne

The spring 2011 issue of Academic Questions looks at the ways Islam and higher education interact today.

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