November, 2009 Entries

November 24

    • The Overselling of the Ph.D.
    • Will the Climate Conspiracy at CRU Curb Dishonest Scientists?
    • Talking Candidly About Title IX

November 23

    • Fiscal Responsibility vs. Equal Opportunity
    • Teaching Students How to Write
    • America's Terror-Soft 'Poisoned Lives'
    • Thought Reform at the University of Minnesota?
    • Have British Scientists Been Fooling with Mother Nature?

November 20

    • The Huge Tuition Hike in California
    • Why I'll Never Be A University President
    • Look at a College's Financials Too
    • Darwish Silenced at Princeton and Columbia
    • Diversity and the Naval Academy

November 19

    • The Diversity Mania at the Naval Academy
    • The Greedy Hand Reaches for More
    • WIcked Hangs the Fruit of Historical Revisionism
    • Dissent
    • What’s Wrong With Education Schools? You Want a List?
    • Another Black Eye for 'Diversity'
    • Research vs. Teaching
    • Erin Go Blah

November 18

    • Re: An Academic Defense
    • Time's Ten Best
    • Truly Remarkable Academic Insights on Sarah Palin
    • David Protess on the Medill Subpoenas
    • An Academic Defense of Affirmative Action
    • Are We Sure That Students Improve Their Human Capital?
    • Must Math Education be 'Culturally Responsive'?

November 17

    • Coed Housing and Binge Drinking
    • Read All About It
    • Intriguing Developments at the Supreme Court
    • The Offending Cartoons Will be Printed After All
    • Shooter Hasan Bared All in Academic Lecture
    • Medill Innocence Project Responds to Allegations
    • A Victory in Sacramento, For Now

November 16

    • Fort Hood and Academic Obscurantists
    • Can Higher Ed Cooperate with the Military?
    • Supremely Stand-Up Student Confronts Iran's Supreme Leader
    • The Online Skills Laboratory
    • Will Columbia Counter-Punch?

November 13

    • Trustee Tried to Can the Sugar Babies
    • A Defense of Free Speech . . . From a Public University?
    • Do Too Many Students Go to College?
    • Landing a Blow against White Privilege

November 12

    • Re: A New Manhattan Project
    • 'A New Manhattan Project'

November 11

    • Amazing Innovation Proposed for Top Public State Universities
    • More on the Medill Innocence Project
    • Affirmative Action for Men?
    • Higher-Ed Reform Ideas
    • Should We Worry About 'The Lost Boys'?
    • Another Vote for Class-Based Affirmative Action
    • Not Much Sharing of Governance
    • Political Correctness Versus Academic Freedom

November 10

    • The Inexcusable Act of Upholding the Constitution
    • Re: Fort Hood and University PC
    • Fort Hood Shooter's Classmates Raised Red Flags

November 09

    • Running in Place
    • An Important (and Unsurprising) Ruling in Texas
    • Michigan U. Holds Firm
    • Who Should Go to College?
    • Fort Hood: PC Reactions Rooted in Academe's Cultural Relativism
    • Priorities on Campus
    • Today's Students No Match for a 1954 Eighth Grader
    • Some Vital Academic Research!
    • Prediction
    • The NEA Trumpets Alinsky

November 06

    • China Has Oversold Higher Ed Too
    • Academic Freedom Isn't the Only Freedom that Matters

November 05

    • The Soft Bigotry of Diversity
    • Yale's Bow to the Crescent
    • 'How Brown Made Me Conservative'
    • Tear Down the Wall
    • Do Professors Matter?

November 04

    • I Am Not Making This Up
    • Will Obama Walk Duncan's Talk?
    • Maine and the Yawning Gulf Between Academics and the Public
    • Does Tenure Threaten Academic Freedom?

November 03

    • Prominent Norwegian University to Vote on Israel Boycott
    • Re: The Power of Race
    • U. of Chicago President Sparks Debate
    • Disparate Bureaucratic Impact
    • 'The Power of Race'
    • The First Assassin
    • Could Higher-ed Funding Become a Political Issue?
    • 'A Government of Laws, and Not of Men'
    • Harvard's Honor and Shame

November 02

    • E-mailbag
    • Bad Ideas Die Hard
    • Boutique Colleges Can Thrive
    • Aw, Shucks

November 01

    • Pariahs, Martyrs -- and Fighters Back

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