September 16, 2010

Preserving Newman's Legacy

Candace de Russy

The Cardinal Newman Society has officially launched an ambitious, multi-faceted new "legacy" project to help preserve more than 10,000 manuscripts handwritten by the 19th-century theologian John......

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September 16, 2010

Collegiate Press Roundup 9-16-10

Glenn Ricketts

This week, student op-ed writers look at campus hand gun policies, sex at school and bad language at football games.

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September 15, 2010

Higher Education's Obesity Problem: Administrative Bloat

George Leef

In today's Pope Center Clarion Call, I write about the recent study released by the Goldwater Institute on administrative bloat in higher education. Almost everyone laments the increasing cost of......

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September 15, 2010

A Not-So-Bold Plan

Jason Fertig

A new book by Mark Taylor, Crisis on Campus: A Bold Plan for Reforming Our Colleges and Universities, recycles some familiar ideas.

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September 14, 2010

Spending Too Much on Too Little: Peter Wood Assesses the Bubble

Ashley Thorne

Higher education could be the next bubble to burst, many commentators have observed. It has all the symptoms of the housing bubble, and once enough people realize they are paying too much for too litt......

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September 14, 2010

Fixing America One Treadmill at a Time

Peter Wood

These liberal arts professors have some strange ideas on how to change the world.

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September 13, 2010

Newsflash: MSN Cites "Weird" College Courses

Glenn Ricketts

This just in from the MSN homepage, where there's a piece advising parents of prospective college students to check out what their hefty tuition buys them these days. The "weird" offerings inclu......

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September 13, 2010

What Has Become of Freshman Comp?

George Leef

That is the question Professor Robert V. Young of North Carolina State answers in this Pope Center piece we released last week. Back when he taught the course in the 1970s, it was like boot camp for c......

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September 13, 2010

The Bubble: Higher Education's Precarious Hold on Consumer Confidence

Peter Wood

Once enough people realize they are paying too much for too little, they'll go elsewhere, and the giant college industry will collapse. The tipping point is coming, and the status quo is getting h......

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September 10, 2010

Reading Between the Lines

David Clemens

Discussing Claude Shannon’s communication theories, my student Hali asked about reading comprehension, and I thought of Bernard Knox (who died July 22).  His New York Times obituary by......

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