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Why More Colleges Are Turning a Blind Eye to Cheating 0
- Education
- November 15, 2016
Imagine that you’re the president of a community college. To justify your institution’s existence and your enviable salary, you must convince the board of trustees that the institution is meeting—possibly even exceeding—certain productivity benchmarks: for instance, a threshold number of new enrolments, solid graduation rates and satisfactory retention of students from year to year. The
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UVA President Gets in Trouble for Quoting… Jefferson?0
- Culture
- November 15, 2016
I’m convinced our higher education system has lost just about every shred of common sense it had. Sure, there are pockets here and there, but that seems to be the exception rather than the norm. The latest example of this lack of common sense occurred the other day at the University of Virginia. In an
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Snowden: Stop Putting So Much Faith (and Fear) in Presidents 0
- Politics
- November 15, 2016
Whistleblower ?and former NSA contractor Edward Snowden remains a fugitive at large, but that didn’t stop him from popping up and chiming in on the recent presidential election. Snowden, who in 2013 blew the lid on the NSA’s massive covert surveillance program, recently appeared on camera via livestream to talk about privacy in an event hosted by
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Building Walls for Protection is Not Immoral or Unchristian 0
- Philosophy
- November 15, 2016
The building of walls has been very much in the news over the past week or so. There is, of course, the famous or infamous wall that President Elect Trump has promised to build along the Mexican border. And then there are the recent comments by Pope Francis, seen as a thinly-veiled intervention by the
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Psychologist: ‘Parenting Correctness’ Leading Parents Astray 0
- Culture
- November 15, 2016
The other day, NPR published a glowing article describing the decline in spanking over the last several decades. Parents, it seems, are resorting to other forms of non-physical punishment, including “time-outs.” I thought this was interesting, particularly since the generation that grew up under this switch in discipline methods seems to now be exhibiting signs
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9 Eyebrow-Raising Numbers From Trump’s Surprising Win 0
- Economics
- November 14, 2016
We are still in the immediate aftermath of the US Presidential Elections, a surprise upset result that has resulted in millions of words being written and many surveys, postmortems, predictions and howls of anguish and triumph being unleashed. So here’s one more to that pile. As I mentioned in my last blogpost before the election,
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