A growing number of students are responding to the increasingly secular, even pagan, nature of most colleges and universities by a taking a walk, to a more religious institution of higher learning.
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Community College: Bias at the Grassroots
Community colleges can be every bit as biased to the left as their Ivy League and state university counterparts.
The Big Chill
Two veteran professors from both coasts gave Campus Report radio listeners an idea of the chill on free speech of politically correct norms in academia particularly on issues relating in any way to race.
Little Churchills
Americans were understandably upset to learn that University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill compared the victims who died in the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center to “Little Eichmans,” likening them to the infamous Nazi war criminal. These same Americans should know that there are a platoon of “Little Churchills” in colleges and universities throughout the United States.
Games and Fun at Harvard
Campus Report’s “Squeaky Chalk” columnist reviews the Summers’ controversy and the war for fun.
The gods of global warming
On American campuses, belief in global warming and man’s contribution to it approaches the theological. Actual meteorologists take a more nuanced approach.
Can Education Association Setbacks = School Reform?
Recent political losses for teachers unions nationwide may result from past gains made by the associations but could lead to better results in education.
Scholes Addresses the MLA
The outgoing president of the Modern Language Association Robert Scholes used his farewell speech to admonish literature professors from around the country about the state of their field.
Rights of Humanities
A frequent criticism of current humanities instruction is that it focuses on what to think, rather than how to think. The humanities have become dogmatic and provincial.
Very Human Humanities
A Humanities curriculum should promote and foster human rights across the globe, according to three professors who convened at the Modern Language Association conference to discuss “The Future of the Humanities in a Fragmented World.”