Education

Universities: Forced diversity? Nuanced judgment?

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For weekend readers, two articles from me this week on the campus battles: “Should Politicians Force Diversity at Universities?” Published by the Berens Foundation’s The Right Insight. Excerpt on politicized universities: “Politicians must then choose either (1) to fail in their responsibilities to taxpayers by continuing to spend their money on educationally irresponsible institutions, or […]

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Campus Power Politics – It’s Calculated Strategy [Good Life series]

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Universities are political places, but there’s good politics and bad. First point: The protesting students are neither “snowflakes” who can’t take the heat nor “delicate flowers” whose feelings have been bruised. University students have seen movie violence, broken up with boyfriends and girlfriends, read ugly things on the internet, viewed porn clips, lost grandparents, and

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Entrepreneurial Education Conference at Rockford University

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The Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship is hosting a conference March 31-April 1 on Entrepreneurial Education. Speakers T. K. Coleman (Praxis) María Marty (Fundación para la Responsabilidad Intelectual) Nicholas Capaldi (Loyola University New Orleans) Kevin Currie-Knight (East Carolina University)  Marsha Familaro Enright (The Great Connections Seminars)  Terry Noel (Illinois State University)  Jed Hopkins (Edgewood College)  Amy

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Is Education Really Too Expensive? [Good Life series]

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Many people complain about how education has become so expensive. Mostly, they are wrong. Schooling has become more expensive, but consider the cost of the following awesome education resources: * Kahn Academy for learning math: Free. * Louvre Online for experiencing and studying art history: Free. * Google Translate for learning dozens of languages: Free.

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