August, 2008 Entries

August 30

    • Go Blue

August 29

    • Reader Mail re: Beer-Guzzling President
    • Key to the Magic Kingdom?
    • Obama Besieges Prof and Kurtz
    • Another Voice in the "Amethyst" Debate
    • Duke Lacrosse
    • More on the Groseclose Resignation
    • Encouraging Student Political Activism
    • Strange Brew

August 28

    • UCLA Prof Resigns from Admissions Committee to Protest Racial Preferences
    • Conventions and American Culture
    • More on "Libel Tourism"
    • Reader Mail re: Drinking Age
    • Re: Debate on Lowering the Drinking Age
    • Charles Murray Interviewed
    • Conservative Foundations and Academe
    • The Pope Center Debates Lowering the Drinking Age
    • Going Green on Campus
    • "They Give You Cash, Which Is Just as Good as Money"
    • Getting Vedder All the Time

August 27

    • Summers Never Ends
    • Money Where Their Mouths Are

August 26

    • Much Ado About Nothing
    • Students Can Borrow Too Much
    • Boycott Canada!

August 25

    • Red Alert 2009
    • The Death of Parody on Campuses, Obama, and Harvard
    • The Trouble with Ed Schools
    • Pakistan's Madrassa "Fortresses"
    • Eduwonkette Comes Out
    • Peter Wood Helps Set the Record Straight
    • More Thoughts on Journalism Degrees
    • Muslims Displace Indonesian Christian Students
    • The End Is in Sight

August 24

    • The Onion

August 22

    • Re: Real Education
    • Wow
    • Interesting Info for the Title IX Debate
    • Re: Journalism Degrees Are Unnecessary
    • An Education with Some Wrong Turns
    • Interviewed about Ed Schools

August 21

    • Re: Real Education
    • Profs Protest Treatment of BC Student Accused of Terrorism
    • Re: College Presidents and the Drinking Age
    • HEA Gets "F" on Accountability
    • JMU Title IX Update
    • Legal Age 21

August 20

    • Re: Columbia Feminists
    • No Community College for N.C. Illegals
    • The Debate Over Title IX in STEM Fields
    • Re: Legacy Preferences
    • Re: USA Today on Legacy Preferences
    • Don't Wait for the Sequel
    • USA Today on Legacy Preferences
    • Cyberwarfare Studies
    • My Review of Murray's Real Education
    • Heartfelt Rally by CUNY Profs
    • Pricey

August 19

    • Check Out Your Profs' and Chancellors' Salaries
    • Fox News to Seek Out Student Journalism
    • Big Demand for Non-College Jobs
    • Weissberg on "Incidentism"
    • The Drinking Age
    • "Textbook Lies About Islam"
    • Ramesh Ponnuru on Deferring to College Authorities
    • A Voice from the Mideast
    • Is it a Good Thing
    • SRU's Bountiful 'Grocery Store'
    • Listen Up

August 18

    • Huntington Was Right
    • Asbahi's MSA Ties
    • Title IX in STEM Fields

August 15

    • Iranian Minister Sports Phony Oxford Degree
    • Y Spel Rite?
    • MIT 'Witch' Very Important Capture
    • Ridiculous
    • Which School Has Tougher Standards?
    • Re: Student Evaluations
    • Modern Language Association v. Solzhenitsyn
    • 'Dorm Diapers' Doom Students to Dependency

August 14

    • Re: Student Evaluations
    • Obama's Asbahi and the MSA
    • More on the Video Games-GPA Connection
    • More Reader Mail re: Student Evaluations
    • Online Paradigm Change Amid 'First Globals'
    • Re: Student Evaluations
    • IBU Prof on Turkey's Tightrope Act on Iran

August 13

    • Reader Mail re: Student Evaluations
    • Latest on UNC Would-Be-Murderer Student
    • Multi-Million-Dollar Chicken Feed
    • The Great Debater
    • PBC in the News
    • Thumbs Down on Faculty Unions
    • Sunlight from the Supremes?
    • 'Theology in Life' Studies
    • Re: Real Education
    • Teachers Need Better Preparation to Teach Math
    • Real Education

August 12

    • 'Jijinging' the GMAT
    • O. and the 'Invisible Man'
    • Re: Student Evaluations

August 11

    • Brainwashed Twentysomethings?
    • Reader Mail re: Cars on Campus
    • Reader Mail re: Georgetown Arabic Textbook
    • More on Worthwhile Teaching
    • Shame on U.T. Professor Spellberg
    • University, Inc.
    • Reader Mail re: Student Evaluations
    • More Punting on ISA Machinations
    • Georgetown Arabic Textbook Denounced

August 08

    • Data on Teaching Effectiveness
    • Frankfurt Student Alleged to be Hezbollah Agent
    • Mid-East Studies Departments Hiring Token Jews
    • Bikes on Campus
    • Obama’s Thesis: Much Ado About Very Little
    • Re: Class & Crass
    • Of 'Class & Crass'
    • Cash-for-Class Classism

August 07

    • Re: The Seriousness of the Modern Campus
    • The Seriousness of the Modern Campus
    • One-World Naivete at State
    • Re: Video Games and GPA
    • Re: Video Games and GPA

August 06

    • Why Americans Don't Go for Science
    • Another Tribute to Solzhenitsyn
    • A Temple Collapses
    • Re: Video Games and GPA
    • Students Need to Learn to Accept the Consequences
    • HBS's Booze Luges, Priscilla Balls, and New Age Group Bonding Games
    • Is There a Problem with Adjunct Faculty?
    • Murderous MIT-Educated Qaeda Mom

August 05

    • More on Scholar Obama
    • A Bad Idea Gets Worse
    • PBC in the News
    • Prof Leads Charge Against Silencing Anti-Obama Bloggers
    • Remembering Solzhenitsyn on the 'Intelligentsia,' etc.
    • Re: Higher-Ed Bill
    • Re: Higher-Ed Bill
    • Re: Higher-Ed Bill
    • Ivy Leaguers Gumming Up Obama's Campaign
    • Export Campus Liberty, Not Libertinage

August 04

    • NYT on 'Obama's Delicate Path on Class and Race Preferences'
    • O. Race-Centric Through and Through
    • Prof Advises Obama Wrongly on Surge
    • USA Today Falls for the 'Educational Slump' Line
    • Obama's 'Lost' Thesis
    • Would Someone Sound the Alarm ?
    • Re: Higher-Ed Bill
    • In Praise of Naming Names
    • Black-Plague Studies

August 01

    • Re: Higher-Ed Bill
    • Bogus Degrees
    • Higher-Ed Bill Goes to Bush
    • Re: Milton Friedman Institute
    • Reader Mail re: Citizen of the World

Browse by Month

    • November 2009
    • October 2009
    • September 2009
    • August 2009
    • July 2009
    • June 2009
    • May 2009
    • April 2009
    • March 2009
    • February 2009
    • January 2009
    • December 2008
    • November 2008
    • October 2008
    • September 2008
    • August 2008
    • July 2008
    • June 2008
    • May 2008
    • April 2008
    • March 2008
    • February 2008
    • January 2008
    • December 2007
    • November 2007
    • October 2007
    • September 2007
    • August 2007
    • July 2007
    • June 2007
    • May 2007
    • April 2007
    • March 2007
    • February 2007
    • January 2007
    • December 2006
    • November 2006
    • October 2006
    • September 2006
    • August 2006
    • July 2006
    • June 2006
    • May 2006
    • April 2006
    • March 2006