http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/highereducation/ en-us Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:43:48 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101860/posts LONDON: It may sound untrue, but it's now a fact — Britain's standing as a world-class destination for higher education is under threat. Leading British universities have lost ground to their richer foreign rivals in world rankings — both Cambridge and Oxford universities have slipped down the top 200 list to give way to popular US varsities like Harvard and Yale. In fact, according to the Times Higher Education — QS World University Rankings, Harvard is at the top followed by Yale, Cambridge and Oxford. Both these British varsities came joint second last year. However, four UK universities are in... The Times of India http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101860/posts#comment Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:43:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101738/posts RALEIGH, North Carolina: Enrollment of minorities in U.S. colleges has increased substantially in recent years, but not fast enough to keep up with demographic changes. Among Hispanics, a lower proportion who are in theri late 20s has completed at least a two-year degree when compared with those age 30 and older. Unless the trend is reversed, the increases in Hispanic participation in higher education won't be enough to ensure that a growing proportion earn a college degree. The findings are highlighted in a biennial report to be released Thursday by the American Council on Education, supported by the GE Foundation.... International Herald Tribune (AP) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101738/posts#comment Thu, 9 Oct 2008 22:00:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101552/posts The clueless aristocrats have descendents in spoiled college kids who think it’s trendy to idolize Communist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara. Che’s face is emblazoned on T-shirts; he was glamorized by the movie The Motorcycle Diaries; and Time magazine described him as “a potent symbol of rebellion.” But few of the college hipsters who admire Che know what he actually stood for. The Post (Ohio) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101552/posts#comment Thu, 9 Oct 2008 18:26:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098655/posts When he was hired as director of the loud, rowdy Cal Aggie Marching Band at UC Davis, nobody told Tom Slabaugh about the tradition of "naked van." But on last year's road trip to the football game with Portland State, a trumpet player yelled "naked van!" and everybody in the vehicle - men and women alike - stripped to their underwear. Slabaugh ordered band members to put their clothes back on, but they ignored him, he said in a memo to university officials. Meanwhile, a sousaphone player and a clarinetist wrote "I BOOBS" in masking tape on the van's window,... San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098655/posts#comment Mon, 6 Oct 2008 14:56:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2097824/posts CSULB: Academic Senate distances itself from Kevin MacDonald's controversial works.LONG BEACH - The Cal State Long Beach Academic Senate has voted to disassociate itself from the writings of a controversial psychology professor who has been accused of having anti-Semitic and white ethnocentric views. "While the Academic Senate defends Dr. Kevin MacDonald's academic freedom and freedom of speech, as it does for all faculty, it firmly and unequivocally disassociates itself from the anti-Semitic and white ethnocentric views he has expressed," according to the resolution Thursday. Responding to the resolution, MacDonald, a tenured professor, said "everyone has ethnic interests." "This is an... Press Telegram http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2097824/posts#comment Sun, 5 Oct 2008 05:24:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2097125/posts America’s university system is creating a class-riven nation. There has to be a better way. To ask whether too many people are going to college requires us to think about the importance and nature of a liberal education. “Universities are not intended to teach the knowledge required to fit men for some special mode of gaining their livelihood,” John Stuart Mill told students at the University of St. Andrews in 1867. “Their object is not to make skillful lawyers, or physicians, or engineers, but capable and cultivated human beings.” If this is true (and I agree that it is), why... The American http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2097125/posts#comment Sat, 4 Oct 2008 01:19:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094180/posts The candidate of change, the shining proponent of a "new way" in national politics, says that you aren't allowed to bring a sign to his rally. So much for the right of free political speech. To add insult to injury, this rally was held at the publicly funded University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. So, now the government is lending the weight of its authority to squelch free speech. So, where is the hew and cry about this unAmerican activity? Did the media even note this heavy-handed policy? But, it is all true nonetheless. The rally was held and... publiusforum.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094180/posts#comment Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:16:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094671/posts Barack Obama suggested this weekend that children of illegal immigrants should have an opportunity to attend community colleges. In an interview with WUNC this weekend, the Democratic presidential candidate said children who attend public schools should have the chance to continue to improve themselves. "For us to deny them access to community college, even though they've never lived in Mexico, at least as far as they can tell ... is to deny that this is how we've always built this country up," he said. The campaign of Republican John McCain issued a statement saying he was opposed to providing benefits... Charlotte Observer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094671/posts#comment Wed, 1 Oct 2008 06:50:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2093266/posts Monday, September 29, 2008 Peak Education A few - very few - in the world of the university are beginning to catch on. Sheltered as (we think) we are from the slings and arrows of worldly fortune, most of us blithely work under the assumption that what matters most is how many times our names appear in the index of obscure books published by obscure academics, and not some fundamental material conditions that have led to the rise of the contemporary university in its current form. As I've written here in a post over a year and a half ago,... patrickdeneen.blogspot.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2093266/posts#comment Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:54:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2091272/posts A few weeks ago, I helped my 18-year-old sister move into her freshman dorm at Hillsdale College in Michigan. I was anxious for her -- I worried that the female culture at her school would be similar to that at my own alma mater, Tufts University in Medford, Mass. As a reserved evangelical from Colorado Springs, Colo., I was shocked by a lot of things at Tufts when I entered in the fall of 2003. What shocked me more than anything, however, was the way women treated other women. I regularly heard young women refer to each other using the... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2091272/posts#comment Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:06:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087947/posts Ghosts from civil rights era are fading away OXFORD -- University of Mississippi Chancellor Robert Khayat is well aware of the significance of the nation's first black presidential nominee, Democrat Barack Obama, arriving this week on the same campus where James Meredith broke the color barrier in 1962. When the international media spotlight returns for the Friday debate, the chancellor knows questions about race will come from the expected 3,000 members of the media. Feeling confident about the work the school has done in recent years, Khayat believes many journalists with opinions of the university forged by the riot... Sun Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087947/posts#comment Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:59:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2089120/posts A commission convened by some of the country’s most influential college admissions officials is recommending that colleges and universities move away from their reliance on SAT and ACT scores and shift toward admissions exams more closely tied to the high school curriculum and achievement. ... It encourages institutions to consider dropping admission test requirements unless they can prove that the benefits of such tests outweigh the negatives. ... Mr. Fitzsimmons’s group, which was convened by the National Association for College Admission Counseling, also expresses concerns “that test scores appear to calcify differences based on class, race/ethnicity and parental educational attainment.”... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2089120/posts#comment Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:44:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088193/posts University of Massachusetts officials on Monday quashed efforts by an Amherst campus chaplain to offer two college credits to any student willing to campaign in New Hampshire this fall for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Fox 59 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088193/posts#comment Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:05:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086851/posts Q. Although attending college has long been a staple of the American dream, you argue in your new book, “Real Education,” that too many kids are now heading to four-year colleges and wasting their time in pursuit of a bachelor’s degree. A. Yes. Let’s stop this business of the B.A., this meaningless credential. And let’s talk about having something kids can take to an employer that says what they know, not where they learned it. Q. You’re not the first social scientist to knock the liberal arts, but you may be the first to insist that only 20 percent of... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086851/posts#comment Sun, 21 Sep 2008 02:00:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086017/posts As I noted on an earlier thread, I sent an email to the president of Metro College after I read about Andrew Hallam's assignment "to assemble criticisms of Gov. Sarah Palin." http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=75426 They have responded in what I think it an appropriate way. I thought it would only be fair to share the email. ************ RE: E-mail from contact Office of the President Site Thank you for your concerns about the issues mentioned in recent news mediastories. Metro State senior administration first learned of this situationvia an article in the WorldNetDaily on Tuesday, Sept. 16. At that point, theCollege had... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086017/posts#comment Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:20:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2085293/posts An English Professor at Denver's Metropolitan State College is being investigated by the college for, bias,bullying and harassment after he gave students in his class an assignment to " undermind " the Republican Vice Presidential Nominee Sarah Palin http//foxnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2085293/posts#comment Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:18:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2083824/posts A state appellate court has put a financial cloud over the future of tens of thousands of undocumented California college students, saying a state law that grants them the same heavily subsidized tuition rate that is given to resident students is in conflict with federal law. In a ruling reached Monday, the state Court of Appeal reversed a lower court's decision that there were no substantial legal issues and sent the case back to the Yolo County Superior Court for trial. "It has a huge impact," said Kris Kobach, an attorney for the plaintiffs and a law professor at the... SF Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2083824/posts#comment Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:41:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2083756/posts Vatican City, Sep 16, 2008 / 10:50 am (CNA).- Two universities from different sides of the Atlantic announced plans today to hold an international conference to discuss Charles Darwin’s work “The Origin of the Species.” The conference will approach Darwin’s theory of evolution from a scientific standpoint, rather than an ideological one, an organizer explained.  "Biological Evolution: Facts and Theories. A Critical Appraisal 150 years after 'The Origin of Species'" is scheduled for March 3-7, 2009 in Rome and is being sponsored by the University of Notre Dame (USA) and the Pontifical Gregorian University. The congress, while being sponsored by... CNA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2083756/posts#comment Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:00:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2083387/posts Link only - AP The Day http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2083387/posts#comment Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:15:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2083333/posts With a stroke of the pen, a college has eliminated Christmas from the calendar. Likewise, Easter is gone, both now being branded "end of term" breaks at Yorkshire Coast College, according to the UK's Daily Mail. The reason? Apparently school officials wanted to make sure they didn't "discriminate." "Every school and college, wherever located, is responsible for educating its learners who will live and work in a country which is diverse in terms of cultures, religions or beliefs, ethnicities and social backgrounds," a spokeswoman for the college told the newspaper. "All employees at Yorkshire Coast College are encouraged to closely... WorldNetDaily.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2083333/posts#comment Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:19:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2080862/posts ...Extremism is a systemic problem with the Muslim Students Association network. For example, Sheikh Khalid Yasin, who has spoken at a multitude of campuses throughout the country and at events at the MSA National level, has denied al-Qaeda was involved in 9/11 and believes that homosexuals should be killed in accordance with the Koran. Norman Finkelstein, who has also spoken for various Muslim Students Association groups, has been featured at the University of Maryland, UC Irvine, UCLA, UC Berkeley, Harvard, Columbia, and many others. Imam Abdul Alim Musa, a radical imam and founder of the As Sabiqun (Arabic for “The... Jammies Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2080862/posts#comment Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:53:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2079994/posts "2008 Centennial/Dedication Schedule at a Glance" Thursday, Sept. 11... 2008 Centennial/Dedication Schedule at a Glance http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2079994/posts#comment Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:34:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2080251/posts "A Sacramento State grad is trying to make money the old fashioned way, by auctioning off her virginity to help pay for her graduate studies. And so far, bidding is up to $250,000." "The 22-year-old who is using the pseudonym Natalie Dylan for safety reasons is going through a legal brothel in Nevada to sell her virginity. "The main purpose of this is to finance a couple things in my life," Dylan told CBS13. "I think empowerment of women is picking yourself up and doing something on your own to better yourself."" "Dylan says she's already taken a polygraph test... CBS 13 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2080251/posts#comment Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:29:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2080215/posts A 22-year-old college grad looking to pay off her student loans will auction off her virginity at Nevada's infamous Moonlight Bunny Ranch, Us magazine reported. The Sacramento State grad, who uses the pseudonym "Natalie Dylan," told "The Insider" she is "ready for the controversy." "I don't think auctioning my virginity will solve all my problems, but it will create some financial stability," she said, according to the magazine. Dylan was turned down by eBay, and shock-jock Howard Stern denied reports he has a hand in the stunt. "Through this process I'm not just looking for the highest bidder," she said,... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2080215/posts#comment Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:50:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2077701/posts Chelsea Clinton. The former First Daughter is also starting a master's program at Columbia, majoring in public health policy, according to a source. NY Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2077701/posts#comment Mon, 8 Sep 2008 22:59:49 GMT