Nonprofits hold their noses around for-profits, writes Marc Bousquet. But whose shady practices do you think for-profits modeled theirs on?
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Laurie Fendrich says that many people are surprised to learn that she gives a written midterm exam in her beginning painting class.
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Tenure to protect academic freedom may be an overplayed card, writes Kevin Carey. But there's no better advertisement for it than Cuccinelli's ham-fisted legal attack on UVa.
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If you take seriously the columnist's words about Tea Party film touchstones, Mark Bauerlein asks, what are the implications?
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Marc Bousquet asks whether college faculty can follow the lead of schoolteachers who govern "failing" schools democratically.
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"Brainstorm; Review; Lives of the Mind" A blog run by the Chronicle of Higher Education.
A blog dedicated to the reclamation and protection of individual rights at monocultural public universities.
"Brainstorm; Review; Lives of the Mind" A blog run by the Chronicle of Higher Education.
First Principles is the online journal of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute where college and university faculty and students as well as those interested in ideas can find original content and archival material on American intellectual conservatism.
Place. Limits. Liberty.
Mid-length articles on the politics, the business, and the philosophy of higher education, and how a traditional liberal arts education is faring in contemporary academia.
