July 22, 2010

MTC: The Short-Selling of For-Profit Education

Charlotte Allen

The letter, dated June 17 and addressed to U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, made serious allegations of wrongdoing in the already controversial for-profit education sector: that representatives o......

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August 18, 2010

MTC: ACTA & Its Critics

KC Johnson

ACTA's new, expanded survey of college general education requirements has earned justified praise. Here's Pulitzer Prize winner Kathleen Parker, from her column this Sunday: "The study and Web site do......

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July 19, 2010

MTC: The Curious Case of Dr. Howell

KC Johnson

By KC Johnson As part of its more general---and oft-expressed---commitment to academic freedom, CUNY's Board of Trustees has a student complaint policy that appropriately balances the faculty's academ......

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July 12, 2010

MTC: How Diversity Punishes Asians, Poor Whites and Lots of Others

Russell K. Nieli

When college presidents and academic administrators pay their usual obeisance to "diversity" you know they are talking first and foremost about race. More specifically, they are talking about blacks.......

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June 21, 2010

MTC: Why U.S. Men's Soccer Will Now Decline

Charlotte Allen

The U.S. soccer team surprised most viewers by tying its first-round World Cup game with soccer-powerhouse England 1-1---and then tied Slovenia 2-2 in a match that many said the Americans should have......

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June 14, 2010

MTC: The Wolfers Dig a Deeper Hole

KC Johnson

Inside Higher Ed took a look at the controversy over the "Crying Wolf" project, in which a committee consisting mostly of academics will pay for works of "scholarly integrity" dealing with contemporar......

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May 12, 2010

Academic Questions: Free Online 'Sustainability' Academic Questions Articles

Ashley Thorne

Cross posted from NAS.org We are pleased to announce that the current issue of Academic Questions, a special issue on “Sustainability,” is available FREE online! To read it,&nb......

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