January, 2009 Entries

January 30

    • Bertonneau, Part III
    • Re: First Amendment-Academic Freedom Overlap

January 29

    • A Mistaken Anthropologist
    • Re: First Amendment-Academic Freedom Overlap
    • Mac Donald on the New York Times on Women in Science
    • Re: Sex in Updike
    • Correction on U of Phoenix

January 28

    • Re: Sex in Updike
    • Re: Sex in Updike
    • Another Attack on Mandatory National Service
    • Some Thoughts on Updike
    • The Parade of Leftist Speakers at NC State
    • Accreditation and Outcomes
    • John Stossel Gives College Two Thumbs Down
    • Re: Achievement and Illegitimacy
    • Re: Liberal Arts in Community Colleges
    • Pushing the Agenda: University of Washington "Common Books"

January 27

    • Justice Served in YAF's Top Academic Abuse of 2008
    • Re: Illegitimacy and the Black-White Test-Score Gap
    • More on UC Admissions
    • New UC Admissions Policy: Lower Standards, Higher Costs
    • College Challenged on Obama Records
    • Reader Mail re: Liberal Arts in Community Colleges
    • Grade Inflation Continuing at Chapel Hill
    • More Information on the Virginia Tech Beheading
    • Law School Oversold: A Startling Admission

January 26

    • False Gynecological Equivalence
    • Dr. Biden and America's Community Colleges
    • The Sacred Cow of Academic Research
    • Neo-Con Banned at LSE
    • Involuntary Servitude Okay if Nice People are in Charge
    • Wild Boars Alert

January 23

    • Teaching Post-Literate Students, Part Deux
    • Chinese Student Decapitated at Virginia Tech
    • AIA's '08 Nominees for "Most Senseless Scholar"
    • Disdain For Our Educational System
    • Academe's Worst '08 Blunders
    • Re: Women in Science
    • More on the Army War College's Resident Apologist for Hamas

January 22

    • Re: Women in Science
    • Reader Mail re: Women in Science
    • New Paper Attacks Waste of Academic Research
    • Hamas's Academic Boosters
    • The Decline of Reading in American Education
    • Survival of the Flubbers
    • Once Again, Higher Ed Oversold in Britain

January 21

    • Re: Women in Science
    • Re: Women in Science
    • Freedom a "Problem" that Keeps Women Out of Science
    • In Defense of the Army War College
    • "Residence Life" Took a Pounding at the NAS Meeting
    • FIRE's Missive to President Obama

January 20

    • What Doth It Profit a Man?

January 19

    • The Duke Rape Case and Larry Summers
    • What Does the Future for College Grads Look Like?
    • What is a Masterpiece?
    • Is the AAUP Sincere?
    • Strategic Fiasco at the Army War College
    • No Classes During the Inauguration

January 16

    • Common Sense about the "Hate Crime" at NC State
    • Subterfuge at SIUC
    • Can Today's College Students Be Taught?
    • The Higher-Ed "Spendapalooza"
    • Bravo, American U. of Iraq

January 15

    • Re: First Amendment vs. Academic Freedom
    • Responding to Reader Mail
    • Does Higher Ed Drive Economic Growth?
    • Reader Mail re: Academic Freedom
    • Let's Stop Talking "Academic Freedom"
    • Re: Exchange on Affirmative Action
    • Reader Mail re: Pester Power
    • My Thoughts on the Nelson-Wood Debate

January 14

    • Continued Exchange at Inside Higher Ed
    • Arrivederci, Advanced Placement
    • A Teach-the-Conflicts Statement by Graff
    • Yet Another Diversity Study

January 13

    • Ezra Klein on Student Evaluations
    • "By-Products of Nineties Liberal Education"
    • Is it Necessarily Good to Keep the Cost of College Low?
    • Law Schools "Git" with Gitmo
    • Encouraging News?

January 12

    • Neuhaus and the Academy
    • Federal Charter-School Policy
    • Re: Nonsense on Stilts
    • Defining Sustainability Down
    • "Libel Tourism" in the News Again
    • "Mismatch" Theory to Face Ultimate Test?
    • Canadian Professors' Union Doesn't "Get" Just War
    • “Nonsense on Stilts”
    • George Washington, Terrorist?
    • Free to Say What You Think
    • Economic Debacle Work of Those with "Highest" Education

January 09

    • Re: SAT Changes

January 08

    • SAT Policy Changes
    • Higher Education's Annual Scandal
    • College Students: The Future of America
    • Cool Hand Liu

January 07

    • I Score the Kirp vs. Murray Bout
    • That Silly National-Service-Academy Idea
    • University Freedom Part of Call for New Constitutional Conservatism
    • A Wonderful Rebuttal to Barbara Ehrenreich
    • Re: Law Schools and Writing
    • Shouldn't Law-School Grads At Least Write Well?
    • Another View on Robertson v. Princeton
    • Academia on Israel

January 06

    • If You're Successful on Your Own, You Can Say What You Think
    • George Will's Column on Griggs v. Duke Power
    • Did You Hear the One About the "Student" Athlete?
    • Re: Knowledge
    • Another Contrary View on "Stimulus" Money for Higher Ed

January 05

    • What Caroline Kennedy Learned in College
    • Re: Knowledge
    • Let's Hear It for Knowledge
    • The MLA on Literature, Reading, and Masterpieces
    • Pro-Minarets Prof in Switzerland

January 03

    • Responses to a Recent Pope Center Article
    • The Pearl Project

January 02

    • Pope Center Looks Back on '08

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