September 25, 2008

The Effects of Proposition 209 on California: Higher Education, Public Employment, and Contracting

Charles Geshekter

This is an article from the "Future of Race Preferences" issue of Academic Questions (vol. 21, no. 3). It is an address that was originally presented at

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September 25, 2008

America's Financial Crisis and Higher Education

Peter Wood

Student loans going the way of home mortgages could have serious consequences for the university. A call to academe to pay attention to what's going on in American finance.

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September 24, 2008

Crying Out Loud

Glenn Ricketts

Scholarships for cheerleaders but none for history readers

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September 24, 2008

Lazere v. Gelernter

Peter Wood

On the Sometimes Difficult Task of Setting the Record Straight or Getting Heard Above the Din Especially if Your Points Are Prolix

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September 23, 2008

The Extracurricular Sector of the University: Unappreciated and Soon To Be Unneeded

Tom Wood

With the rise of online education, will student affairs and residence life programs become obsolete?

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September 23, 2008

Observations at Manchester

Ashley Thorne

What does NAS have to say about a private Christian college? NAS takes a tour through Manchester.

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September 23, 2008

About Face in Amherst

Peter Wood

Here's what really happenned when U Mass tried to cover its tracks after getting caught offering students academic credit for volunteering in the Obama campaign.

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September 22, 2008

College Credit for Campaign Volunteers

Peter Wood

Students are earning academic credit for helping out in the presidential campaigns.

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September 19, 2008

Sheep in Wolve's Clothing: A Business-as-Usual Group Tries on the Rhetoric of School Reform

Peter Wood

One education organization seeks to solve an unnamed crisis by paying teachers more and sending more students to college.

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September 17, 2008

Fairy Tales for Freshmen: Mile-High Propaganda

Ashley Thorne

Once upon a time, a professor of freshman English imposed his politics on the class. Actually, it was only last week at Metro State College.

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Where Did We Get the Idea That Only White People Can Be Racist?

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

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Ask a Scholar: What Does YHWH Elohim Mean?

A reader asks, "If Elohim refers to multiple 'gods,' then Yhwh Elohim really means Lord of Gods...the one of many, right?" A Hebrew expert answers....