March 11, 2011

Links to Widener Law Prof Update

Ashley Thorne

Thanks to bloggers for the links to NAS's update on Widener criminal law professor Lawrence Connell. A university committee recently recommended withdrawing charges of racism and sexism against......

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March 11, 2011

David Horowitz at Brooklyn College

Mitchell Langbert

A student, Yosef Sobel, decided to invite David Horowitz to Brooklyn College in response to campus protests. The campus protesters pretended to be Israeli military officers stopping students at checkp......

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March 11, 2011

Collegiate Press Roundup

Glenn Ricketts

Student journalists have a look at campus elections, Transgender Awareness Week, the Libyan crisis and the joy of polyamory.

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March 11, 2011

The Cultural Contradictions of Sustainability

William H. Young

The sustainability movement aims to prevent expansion and propagate utopianism. Yet its advocates promote the spread of their ideas and seek "real change" in the real world. Higher education should tr......

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March 11, 2011

Ask a Scholar: Pragmatism in Education

Lynda Stone

How relevant is pragmatism to the education system today?

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March 10, 2011

NPR vs. Northwestern University

Ashley Thorne

At the Chronicle, Naomi Schaefer Riley has a perceptive post contrasting National Public Radio with Northwestern University. Both recently went through public embarrassments, but at NPR, people......

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March 10, 2011

Argus Update

Ashley Thorne

NAS members and volunteers help keep an eye on what's happening at colleges and universities across the country.

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March 10, 2011

Video: Academic Questions Author Zuhdi Jasser Discusses Radical Islam Hearings

Zuhdi Jasser, who wrote "Islamic Schools and American Civic Culture" for the spring 2011 issue of Academic Questions, testified at the Peter King hearings in Congress.

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March 10, 2011

The Coarsening

Peter Wood

Peter Wood comments on the combination of low taste and high privilege that are increasingly characteristic of American faculty members.

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March 10, 2011

The Education Dimaryp

Will Fitzhugh

A visual commentary on the priorities in American public schools.

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