The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) held an online discussion via Google Plus on the role of for-profit colleges and universities such as DeVry University or University of Phoenix.
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Read the articleWhen you compare meticulously researched commercial histories with the extended blogs that pass for academic ones, you come to a startling revelation: Just about everything we’ve been taught about our history is wrong.
Read the articleWhen outsiders enter academia, they discover just how insular it really is.
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Read the articleMindreading is a dangerous preoccupation, even for people celebrated for their minds.
Read the articlePity the poor undergraduate who learns about the Cold War from New York University’s website.
Read the articleJust one of the many misconceptions about conservatives, particularly in the academy, is that we all come off of an assembly line. To preserve this fiction, academics prefer to study us from a distance, if at all.
Read the articleSenior Washington correspondent Michael Barone, who is in a position to know, notes that an interesting thing happened in the history of the two-party system: Republicans and Democrats switched places.
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Read the articlePresident Obama’s approval ratings in his last academic post were not as high as we’ve been lead to believe.
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