February 23, 2010

Academe Gets Curioser and Curioser

Candace de Russy

A former University of Buffalo scientific researcher, William Fals-Stewart, has been accused of using actors -- yes, hired, scripted actors -- as part of a painstaking plan to win acquittal in a mis......

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February 23, 2010

Brothers in Arms

David Clemens

As an undergrad, I spent one year at Berkeley, 1968, a year full of death, riots, tear gas, and bayonets under Peder Sather’s gate.  I dressed in Levis, love beads from a head shop on Teleg......

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February 23, 2010

Going Green is Part of Social Integrity? No Comment

Ashley Thorne

"An Honor Code must link social integrity with ecological sustainability," says a student. Is that really so?

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February 19, 2010

Those Were the Days

Glenn Ricketts

Springtime, 1968: the Great Divide in American higher education.

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February 18, 2010

Should We Blame Poor Teaching for Bad Student Performance?

George Leef

That's the subject of a debate scheduled for March 16 at New York University. Rod Paige, Terry Moe, and Larry Sand are the team arguing that we should. Teachers union president Randi Weingarten......

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February 18, 2010

Radio Broadcast on Sustainability

Ashley Thorne

Cross-posted from www.nas.org Yesterday I spoke in an online radio interview on the American Freedom Alliance’s broadcast, the Western Word. The program was on “The Green Movement and It......

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February 18, 2010

UA-Huntsville Murderous Prof. Was "Not Right", Students Say

Michael Krauss

The Associated Press reports that University of Alabama - Huntsville students had banded together to let university administrators know something "wasn't quite right" about Professor Amy Bishop.......

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February 18, 2010

The Absurdity of "Sustainability" in Economics Education

Tyler Watts

How sustainability education contradicts the sound teaching of economics.

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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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Professor Alleges "Widespread" Discriminatory Hiring Coverup at University of Washington

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Ask a Scholar: What is the True Definition of Latino?

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