Education
College Makes Students More Liberal, but Not Smarter About Civics
Chronicle of Higher Education
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While many graduates of American colleges cannot answer basic civics questions, a higher education does make their opinions more liberal on controversial social issues, according
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The Big Lie About the 'Life of the Mind'
Chronicle of Higher Education
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A year ago, I wrote a column called 'Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don't Go,' advising students that grad school is a bad idea unless they have no need to earn a living
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Brown gets a record 30,000 applicants
Boston Globe
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Getting into Brown University is tougher. Officials at the Ivy League school say they have received a record 30,000 applications for 935 remaining slots in next fall's freshman
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For UC's Commission on the Future, nothing is off the table
Los Angeles Times
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With California's public university system shackled to a shrinking budget, a group of chancellors, students and others considers ideas -- from banal to radical -- to keep quality
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Protect the pursuit of knowledge | Antony Lerman
Guardian Unlimited
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If all sectors of the economy must share the burden of cuts, except schools and hospitals, state funding for universities must be slashed too.
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We need a solution to fund part-time students
The Independent
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As the country's two leading part-time providers of higher education, The Open University and Birkbeck are coming together to inform the review about a significant part of the
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