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11.15.09 - By Peter Wood and Ashley Thorne - The night before, word had gone out on Pajamas Media drawing attention to the release of about 172 megabytes of data that had been anonymously posted to a German website.

10.29.09 - By Ashley Thorne - The sustainability movement has gained surprising momentum on college campuses in recent years. The term “sustainability” has overwhelmingly positive associations for students and many administrators and faculty members, and hardly any skeptics—or at least skeptics who announce their skepticism.

10.29.09 - By Robert Weissberg - Restoring good sense to universities means allowing levelheaded academics to compete with radical imposters who proliferate by printing up their bogus currency. In a phrase: restore the gold standard of discovering and imparting truth.

10.4.09 By Peter Wood - Academic freedom is one of the core doctrines of higher education. By “doctrine” I don’t mean an unquestioned or unquestionable idea.  Everything can be questioned and it is another core doctrine of higher education that everything should be questioned—in the right time and place.

9.28.09 - By Ashley Thorne - Last night was the premiere of a new ABC television series called FlashForward. The premise of the show is that in the first episode, every person on the globe blacks out at once, and that during the black out, each person experiences a vision

9.24.09 - By Peter Wood A friend wrote us the other day wondering “if someone has done an Alvin Toffler style analysis of what the universities will look like in 10-20 years.” He says he is “thinking about the big picture—tuition, standards, teaching, online, trustees, accreditation, etc.”

9.24.09 - By Ashley Thorne “Sustainability” sells eco-responsibility but delivers big government, economic redistribution, and loss of individual freedoms. In our ongoing coverage of the campus-based sustainability movement, we take note of two ominous new developments.

This spring we wrote about Julea Ward, a student who was expelled from Eastern Michigan University's counseling program when she declined to affirm homosexuality as morally acceptable.

9.9.09 - Excerpts from this year's annual OECD publication, Education at a Glance, which was released today.

9.3.09 - Sustainability is not just about practicing good stewardship of the environment. It is also a tool to advance progressive politics and ideology.