July, 2009 Entries

July 31

    • Jane Shaw Reviews One Party Classroom
    • The Morning After

July 30

    • Re: Gates and Vagueness
    • Re: Brain Drain in Michigan
    • The Federal-Loan Pied Piper
    • Brain Drain in Michigan
    • Reader Mail re: Sitting Next to a Republican
    • Remembering Bullet-Ridden Iranian Students

July 29

    • re: Liberty and Libertarianism
    • Crying Racism Pays
    • AAUP on Adjuncts
    • Re: Ricci and Higher Education
    • Gates and the Problem of Vagueness
    • Sotomayor 'Transformed' at Princeton
    • Ricci and Higher Education
    • Zora Neale Hurston
    • re: Liberty and Libertarianism
    • Re: Liberty and Libertarianism
    • All Hail Angela Davis

July 28

    • Reader Mail re: Gates
    • The Light Bulb Goes On
    • Jay Mathews Gets a Gold Star for This
    • Gates Fans the Flames
    • Conservatives Surrounded by Liberals
    • Re: Liberty and Libertarianism
    • Excellent Essay on the Supposed Need to Expand Higher Ed
    • 'Gates-Gate': A Losing Proposition for Obama
    • Re: Liberty and Libertarianism
    • Liberty and Libertarianism

July 27

    • A Revolt against 'Anti-Discrimination' Policies at MSU
    • Radley Balko on the Gates Arrest
    • Another Reason to Oppose Obamacare
    • Sallie Mae's Political Contributions
    • Is Navy Sinking Due to the Diversity Mania?
    • 'Nostalgia' Underlies Gates Imbroglio
    • Gates's 'Inkwell' Doings
    • The Potty-Trained Trustee
    • Crowley, Pass on the Beer

July 24

    • Massachusetts Burning (Out)
    • Chancellor Obama and the 'National Skills College'
    • Gates as Sweet Lou
    • Thin Skinned Authoritarians at Stanford
    • Lowry and Mac Donald on Gates
    • Crowley on Harvard 'Expectations'
    • Can We Measure the Economic Value of Universities?
    • The Representativeness of the Gates Affair
    • Obama on Gates: A 'Black Street Cred' Gambit

July 23

    • Diane Auer Jones on Alternatives to College
    • You Don't Have to Get a BA
    • Women in Science
    • Re: Gates

July 22

    • Slate's Explainer Defines Disorderly Conduct
    • More Thoughts on Gates
    • How Communism Is Taught on Campuses
    • Reader Mail re: Gates
    • Kimball on Gates's Scholarship
    • Re: Gates Charge
    • Gates Charge 'Plausible'
    • FIRE's Excellent Point
    • Jack Dunphy on the Gates Arrest
    • Dems Dislike For-profit Higher Ed
    • More on the Gates Arrest
    • The Higher-Ed Bubble

July 21

    • Deactivating Facebook
    • In Ruth Bader Ginsburg's America
    • On the Henry Louis Gates Arrest
    • Carey Continues Jousting with Libertarians

July 20

    • Re: Columnists at the New York Times
    • What's Wrong with For-Profit Higher Education?

July 19

    • Columnists at the New York Times

July 18

    • Juan Williams and the Double Standard
    • A Conversation on the Left
    • Sotomayor and Group Preferences

July 17

    • David Brooks on Obama's Community-College Plan
    • Good Forbes Piece on Waste in Higher Ed
    • The Push for Standardized Information
    • WSJ Article on Economist Bloggers
    • Posing a False Dilemma on Higher-Ed Costs
    • The Liberal Arts Have No Party
    • Tom Bertonneau Writes Again for the Pope Center

July 16

    • Heather Mac Donald on Law Schools' Responsibility
    • WSJ Article on FERPA
    • Tales of 'Sustainability'
    • Somone Needs a Statistics Class

July 15

    • Scholarships and Title IX
    • Higher Ed Oversold in Britain
    • The Lingo of Identity Politics
    • Academic Freedom Doesn't Trump Academic Integrity
    • Re: Turn Down the Volume
    • Re: Turn Down the Volume
    • Talk About an Idiotic Lawsuit!

July 14

    • Obfuscation Development Leverage Resources
    • Turn Down the Volume
    • A Good Day for Free Speech in L.A.
    • The Case Against College Entitlements
    • 'Liberal Fascism' at Oregon?

July 13

    • Law-School Bubble?
    • The Sound of a Bubble Bursting?
    • Sotomayor's Toxic Empathy
    • Re: Tenure
    • Tenure and Academic Freedom

July 10

    • Reactions to New Pope Center Paper on Cost of Higher Ed
    • Reader Mail re: Tenure
    • Re: Tenure

July 09

    • Re: Adjuncts and Tenure
    • Interracial Roomate Pairings
    • The University of Phoenix's Roots
    • The Churchill Decision
    • An Odd Way to Pay for College

July 08

    • Alberto Gonzales to Teach at Texas Tech
    • The Onion Shows How Important a College Degree Is
    • Online Education
    • Reading the Ward Churchill Opinion
    • Sotomayor Mirrors the Campus Left

July 07

    • Re: I Read the Kirn Article
    • Is the Diversity Mania Dumbing Down the Naval Academy?
    • Reader Mail re: Kirn

July 06

    • I Read the Kirn Article on Standardized Testing
    • Re: Adjuncts and Tenure
    • College Graduation Rates Aren't Important
    • On Adjuncts and Tenure
    • Trying to Improve Colgate (the University, not the Toothpaste)
    • Heartbroken

July 05

    • Temple U. Abandons Moses for Mosaics
    • Reader Mail on Tenure
    • Iran Executes Kurdish Students

July 03

    • Tenure-Granting by Stealth
    • The Market vs. Tenure

July 01

    • More on Ricci and Higher Education
    • The Difference Between Status and Belief
    • The Not-So-'Curious' Liberal Take on Health-Care Reform
    • Adjunct Faculty: The Free Market at Work
    • The Ricci Decision
    • Why the Cost of College Keeps Rising

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