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Showing posts with label higher education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label higher education. Show all posts
Thursday, January 10, 2019

College Students Denounce "Trump" Immigration Quotes Until Realizing Democrats Said Them

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Fox News in Nashville quotes my research in the context of a story about students  at American University.  Cabot Phillips of Campuswatch r...
Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Leading GOP Politicians Oppose Campus Due Process

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In the Weekly Standard , KC Johnson and Stuart Taylor Jr. describe how the overwhelming majority of GOP senators, governors, and congressme...
Saturday, March 31, 2018

My Interview on Raquel Okyay's Podcast March 30

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Raquel Okyay had me on her podcast, Rocky and the Gonz , on March 30  . I enter about one-half hour in. It was fun. 
Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Peter Wood's New Campus Anti-Americanism

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Peter Wood, president of the National Association of Scholars, has a great piece in Minding the Campus on the decline and fall of high...
Friday, January 26, 2018

Libertarian Professors Walk a Fine Line

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The concept of a libertarian professor is oxymoronic. Higher education would not exist without state support, for it isn't value produc...
Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Can College Students Learn to Disagree?

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My op-ed “Can College Students Learn to Disagree? The Importance of Contrasting Ideology with Prudence” just came out in Frontpagemag .  I...
Monday, January 4, 2016

The Liberal Arts Can't Fix Higher Education

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My essay " The Liberal Arts Can't Fix Higher Education" appeared at Minding the Campus on December 28, 2015. What can fix hig...
Thursday, July 24, 2014

Ivy League Schools and Progressivism

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William Deresiewicz critiques the performance of Ivy League colleges in The New Republic.   Herbert Croly, Walter Weyl, and Walter Lippmann ...
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Monday, December 30, 2013

No One Wants to Teach Writing

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My piece "No One Wants to Teach Writing" appears in the John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy website commentaries ...
Tuesday, September 24, 2013

The Wizard of Oz and the Business School

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Much has been made about fraud in industry, but there is as much fraud in education.  An example is the enrollment of unqualified students w...
Saturday, May 4, 2013

The Higher Education Bubble

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A colleague from a public, western university told me that for an economics final exam he asked an exam question that required basic arithme...
Monday, August 18, 2008

WHAT's IN A NAME?

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Howard S. Katz wrote this blog here . 8-18-08 In commenting upon the recent (July-August) decline in commodity prices, Bloomberg news serv...
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Saturday, May 3, 2008

In Spring, A Student's Thoughts Turn to GETTING OUT OF THE EXAM

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When I was a student I viewed an exam as a competition at which I would try to excel. For the first time in my 16-year teaching career stud...
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Ratio of Democrat to Republican Donors at Brooklyn College

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Huffington Post lists political donors by employer. The information is publicly available on the World Wide Web. I am not breaching confid...
Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Karkhanis Blasts Professional Staff Congress

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Sharad Karkhanis , who has been attacked in a Professional Staff Congress (PSC)-related law suit, has just released his latest newsletter, P...
Thursday, April 17, 2008

Chronicle of Higher Ed on Seidemann Case

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I sent out a small press release concerning David Seidemann's victory in district court against the leadership of the Professional Staff...
Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Progressivism Contradicts progressivism

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Progressivism was the ideology of early twentieth century American government. Its argument was based on the idea that big business had deve...
Monday, January 28, 2008

Brooklyn College Has a New Provost

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Brooklyn College President Christoph Kimmich's internal release concerning Brooklyn College's new provost follows. 28 January 2008 T...
Monday, January 21, 2008

Sharad Karkhanis--Man of The Year

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I just put up Phil Orenstein's press release concerning the Queens Village Republicans' award to Sharad Karkhanis as "Educator ...
Monday, January 14, 2008

Opiate of the Masses

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Merv of PrairiePundit posts Mark Steyn's article about capitalism and change (thanks to Larwyn). He notes that whereas the presidential...