Day: June 30, 2013

A Check for Bias at the University of Colorado

As reported here and here, the Regents of the University of Colorado have voted to commission a survey of the political climate on the Boulder campus.  I spoke at the meeting, and the discussion was less complicated than one might expect given the history of liberal bias topics at Colorado and elsewhere in the last […]

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Let’s Require Public Speaking

From the National Association of Scholars’ 100 Great Ideas for Higher Education  It would be great and interesting for all concerned if every college student had to present a one-hour talk on some topic on which he had recently done research and written a substantial paper. Too few college students–if any other than the salutatorian and […]

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Do Babies Handicap Women in Academe?

As the 20th century drew to a close, women had started to outpace men on university campuses, and as doctors, lawyers, psychologists, biologists and managers. As a group, they lived longer and epidemiologists described them as healthier and happier.   Yet a raft of books about professional women published around the millennium placed them firmly […]

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Will MOOCS Wear Out Their Welcome?

What is valuable, one-of-a-kind and can’t be copied while retaining its original worth?  The high-end art market. It contains thousands of works of art whose value is determined by what any individual or group is willing to pay.  As the prices for such works of art escalate, something almost magical happens: the value pushes most […]

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