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Where Have All The Philosophers Gone?

Tom Morris | Posted 12.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Philosophy Departments, Insight, Publishing, Philosophy, Wisdom, Public Discourse, Colleges, Self-Improvement, Academia, Media, Universities, Self-Help, Living News
Tom Morris

Science pays off in technology and medicine. Where does contemporary philosophy pay off?

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DeVry Enrollment Sees Year-Over-Year Boost In Fall 2009

AP | Posted 12.08.2009 | Chicago

Read More: DeVry Universty, DeVry Enrollment, College Admissions, Colleges, DeVry Enrollment Boost, Universities, Chicago News

OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill. — For-profit education provider DeVry Inc. on Tuesday said fall enrollment for undergraduates at its DeVry University unit ac...

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Putting Local Journalism at the Core of Higher Education

Peter M. Shane | Posted 11.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Liberal Arts, Higher Education, Local Journalism, Journalism, Universities, Local News, Media News
Peter M. Shane

What would it be like to organize an entire college or university education around the idea of journalism?

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Liberal Arts Education: From Clubbiness to Cosmopolitanism

Michael Roth | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Wesleyan University, Education, Liberal Arts Education, Pomona College, Middlebury College, Universities, Politics News
Michael Roth

Liberal arts colleges and universities promote community, and their educational offerings resist premature specialization. But how relevant are these schools today?

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Creationism And Intelligent Design Gain Foothold In Turkey

Washington Post | Marc Kaufman | Posted 11.08.2009 | World

Read More: Harun Yahya, Islam, Noah's Ark, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Atheism, Turkey, School Boards, Secularism, Science, Anti-Evolution, Institute for Creation Research, Discovery Institute, Charles Darwin, Religion, Intelligent Design, Creationism, Darwin, God, Humanism, Egypt, Saudi Arabie, Evolution, Colleges, Muslim, Ankara, Universities, Christianity, World News

With direct and indirect help from American foes of evolution, similarly-minded Turks have aggressively made the case that Charles Darwin's theory is ...

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The World's Best Universities (PHOTOS, POLL)

Posted 11.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Best Universities in the World, Nobel Prize, Slidehuge, Slidepoll, Academic Ranking of World Universities, Fields Medals, Nobel Prize Winners, College Rankings, China, Universities, Business News

This week, the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) published its 2009 list of the best 500 universities. The annual ranking, which is in its...

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Economic Crisis Compels Economists To Reach For New Paradigm

Wall Street Journal | MARK WHITEHOUSE | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Economy, Policy, The Fed, Recession, Ben Bernanke, Collateral, University, Mortgage, Credit, Economic Policy, Lenders, Finance, College, Rational Expectations, Bernanke, Crisis, Economists, Banks, Academics, Theory, Colleges, Economic Theory, Universities, Business News

The pain of the financial crisis has economists striving to understand precisely why it happened and how to prevent a repeat. For that task, John Gean...

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View from Pakistan: Today's Blast

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 11.02.2009 | World

Read More: Swat, Pakistan Suicide Bombing, War on Terror, Northwestern Frontier Province, Pakistan, Checkpoints, Proxy War, Fata, Baluchistan, Punjab, British, International Islamic University, Tribal Areas, Lahore, Islamabad, Peshawar, Iran, Rawalpindi, South Waziristan, Sindh, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Afghanistan, India, Schools, Hillary Clinton, Nwfp, Universities, World News
Shirin Sadeghi

Pakistani children may be enjoying the break, but most of them know exactly why they can't go to school. I sit stiff as one boy looks up from his video game to tell me the school buses might not be safe right now.

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Nation's Leading Universities Draw Bottom Line on Clean Energy R&D Funding in Senate Climate Bill

Jesse Jenkins | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Kerry-Boxer, Breakthrough Institute, Barbara Boxer, Research, John Kerry, Green Technology, Green News, Clean Energy, Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, Innovation, Technology, Green Energy, Universities, Aplu, Aau, Green News
Jesse Jenkins

Reid and the Senate now have the responsibility to ensure that long-term clean energy R&D efforts are given the funding they desperately need to secure America's leadership in clean energy innovation.

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Women in Hip-Hop: The B-girl Be Festival

Lauri Lyons | Posted 11.18.2009 | Entertainment

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Lauri Lyons

When it comes to women in hip-hop, don't call it a comeback. Women have been here for years.

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Washington Monthly's Annual College Rankings Released

Washington Monthly | Steve Benen | Posted 10.18.2009 | Home

Read More: Washington Monthly College Rankings, College Rankings, Colleges, Washington Monthly, College, College Rankings Issue, Universities, Home News

Today the Washington Monthly releases its annual College Rankings. It's our alternative to U.S. News & World Report's rankings, which we find objectio...

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SAT scores dip for high school class of 2009

AP | JUSTIN POPE | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living

Read More: College Board, Education, Sat, Sat Scores, Standardized Tests, Standardized Testing, SAT Test, College, High School, Lower SAT Scores, Universities, Living News

Through the early 1990s and early 2000s, average scores on the SAT college entrance exam moved steadily upward. Now, for the last five years, they've ...

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College Students Flock To Green Degrees

usatoday.com | Posted 09.03.2009 | Green

Read More: College Students, University, Green Collar Jobs, Green Collar Economy, College Students Going Green, College-Student, College, Green-Collar Jobs, Sustainability, Green Living, College Degrees, Universities, Green News

With an increased interest in the environment and growth in the "green collar" job sector, colleges and universities are beginning to incorporate sust...

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Top 15 Greenest Colleges (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Ami Cholia | Posted 08.29.2009 | Green

Read More: University, Sustainable Living, Green Colleges, Green Campus, Farming, Green Universities, Slideshow, College, Colleges, Academia, Green Living, Students, Universities, Princeton Review Green Honor Roll, Green Honor Roll, Slidepoll, Green News

The Princeton Review just came out with a list of the green honor roll for 15 colleges across the country based on their eco-friendly practices and su...

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Obama Admin Wants To Bring Spy Training Program To Colleges

Washington Post | Walter Pincus | Posted 07.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Spy, CIA Spies, Cia, College, Spy Training, Universities, Politics News

To the list of collegiate types -- nerds, jocks, Greeks -- add one more: spies in training. The government is hoping they'll be hard to spot. ...

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Binge Drinking On The Rise Among US College Students

Yahoo! News | Steven Reinberg | Posted 07.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Binge Drinking, Diet, Personal Health, College, Drinking, Health, Universities, Beer, Addiction & Recovery, Living News

Binge drinking among American college students is on the rise, along with its consequences of drunk driving and drinking-related deaths, U.S. health o...

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Access to Degrees -- Not Just Honorary Degrees

Michael Roth | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Commencement Address, Obama Commencement Speech, Commencement Addresses, Need Blind Admissions, Commencement, Colleges, Universities, Politics News
Michael Roth

I long to see President and Mrs. Obama inspire legislation that improves access to and the sustainability of institutions like those that have honored them this week.

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Universities in Crisis? From Compartmentalization to Collaboration

Michael Roth | Posted 06.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Wesleyan University, Education, Colleges, Secondary Education, Universities, Politics News
Michael Roth

If we are going to provide a stellar post-secondary education experience in the future, our universities must find a way to promote forms of creative specialization not threatened by collaboration.

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An Honorary Degree Is Not An Endorsement

Michael Roth | Posted 05.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Honorary Degree, Honorary Degrees, College, Asu, Higher Education, Obama Asu, Obama Notre Dame, Obama Honorary Degree, Asu Honorary Degree, Universities, Politics News
Michael Roth

Bestowing an honorary degree acknowledges importance, distinction, and achievement; it is not a blanket endorsement. Surely, Obama's importance, distinction and achievements merit such honors.

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All that Economic Jazz

C. L. Max Nikias | Posted 04.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Jazz, College, Venture Capitalists, Research University, Inventions, Venture Capital, Housing Bubble, Universities, Business News
C. L. Max Nikias

The pieces are in place for a renaissance of America's inventive spirit. Wall Street is no longer the envy of the world, but our top 50 research universities most certainly are.

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Becoming a Born-Again Believer in Caring for the Environment

Tri Robinson | Posted 04.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Biblical Mandate, Religion, Baby Boomers, Climate Change, Environment, Christianity, Creation Care, Genesis, Colleges, Global Warming, Evangelicals, Universities, Green News
Tri Robinson

As a committed student and Bible teacher I have read and taught the story of the flood numerous times, always seeing it the same way until one morning in 2005.

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What You Don't Know About Your College Education

Gina Nahai | Posted 02.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Colleges, Tuition, Higher Education, Economy, Cost of Higher Education, Universities, Education, College Endowment, Living News
Gina Nahai

Many colleges and universities have devoted their energies to enlarging the size of their endowments at the expense of the education and wellbeing of their students.

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And You Thought Wal-Mart Employees Had it Bad

Gina Nahai | Posted 01.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Economic Downturn, Health and Retirement Benefits, Faculty, Exploitation, Recession, Universities, Unions, Wallmart, Business News
Gina Nahai

At the same time universities claim to be the guardians of knowledge, they treat their faculty to the legal and financial equivalent of what migrant day laborers earn by standing outside Home Depot.

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Report: College May Become Unaffordable For Most Americans

New York Times | Tamar Lewin | Posted 01.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Colleges, University Costs, College Costs, College Education, Universities, Politics News

The rising cost of college -- even before the recession -- threatens to put higher education out of reach for most Americans, according to the annual ...

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College Testing: Time to Take a Deep Breath

Jerry Lucido | Posted 11.14.2008 | Living

Read More: College Students, Sat, College Admissions, Act, Colleges, Students, Universities, Living News
Jerry Lucido

As if the world's financial turmoil isn't enough, many students and their parents have the added anxiety of college applications and testing this fall. Fortunately, a new report on the use of those tests may let them breathe a little easier.

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