February 18, 2010

Radio: "The Green Movement and Its Discontents"

Ashley Thorne

Listen to NAS communications director discuss the rise of the sustainability movement in higher education.

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February 17, 2010

Climate Change: Inquiring Skepticism at Stanford

Glenn Ricketts

It appears as if the deepening skepticism about the once-invincible global warming "consensus" has shaken loose from what was until very recently strictly taboo. This piece by an undergraduate write......

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February 17, 2010

Global Warming Skepticism Labeled "Scare Tactics" and "Propaganda"

Ashley Thorne

Cross-posted from www.nas.org I just read an article in the Huffington Post, “Educating the Next Generation of Sustainability Professionals,” by Steven Cohen. Cohen tells how the dema......

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February 17, 2010

Intellectual and Moral Virtue and the Huntsville Homicides

Ashley Thorne

Yesterday NAS president Peter Wood wrote "Character Lessons: What We Can Learn From the Huntsville Killings." In it he wrote: “Higher” education is not much of a barrier against jealou......

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February 17, 2010

Erskine Bowles to Depart UNC; Pope Center Comments

George Leef

In today's Clarion Call, my colleague Jay Schalin writes about Erskine Bowles, who has served as president of the UNC system for five years but is stepping down to work on a problem far more dau......

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February 17, 2010

An Elbow in the Ribs: Prof-Prodding Toward Sustainability

Ashley Thorne

Campus administrators and leaders of sustainability organizations come together to think of ways to get "reluctant professors" to teach sustainability. Their answer: "Change how they think."

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February 16, 2010

No Wonder School Teachers Are So Superb

George Leef

Professor Mike Adams writes here about a course taught in the education school at UNC-Wilmington, where the students -- future school teachers -- are taught Black English.

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February 16, 2010

Yale Sex Week Followup

Glenn Ricketts

Well, the festivities, seminars, workshops and other aspects of Yale's recent "Sex Week" are over, but don't fret: there's lots of follow-up information available that may tide you over......

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February 16, 2010

Calling the Kettle Black

Ashley Thorne

A Columbia professor calls global warming skepticism “scare tactics” and “propaganda.”

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February 16, 2010

Character Lessons: What We Can Learn From the Huntsville Killings

Peter Wood

The murders at the University of Alabama at Huntsville evince a dire need for universities to shape the character, not just the ability, of intellectually gifted individuals.

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