Day: January 27, 2014

Libertarians Speak up at Michigan

The following is a letter to Mary Sue Coleman, president of the University of Michigan, and other campus officials by two student leaders of a campus libertarian group: We are writing to you to voice our concerns about the state of the intellectual climate on campus. Last week, Provost Pollack addressed an email to the […]

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Glenn Reynolds on ‘The New School’

On January 9th, Minding the Campus and the Manhattan Institute hosted Glenn Reynolds (of Instapundit fame) for a lecture on his recently released book, The New School: How the Information Age Will Save American Education from Itself. C-SPAN was there to film his talk, and has just made it available online here.

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The OCR Targets Penn State

The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is on the warpath again. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that the OCR has launched an investigation of Penn State. And while Penn State is an institution that is hardly deserving of sympathy, given the exposés of the Freeh Report, the OCR’s move has to raise eyebrows. The Penn State […]

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