In October 2008, careers research firm Vault published the resulls of its 2008 Online Degrees Survey. It reported that only 19 percent of 172 employer-respondents to the survey hired a candidate who possessed only...
A timely quiz: •What did the Emancipation Proclamation actually proclaim? •What was the source of the following phrase: “Government of the people, by the people, for the people?” •Who are Beavis and B–head (this...
The current upheavals in the financial markets have left everyone confused. But in the midst of all the confusion, one thing has become crystal clear: A free country simply must be an economically and...
Cary Nelson, president of the American Association of University Professors, generally does not see eye to eye with critics who say college campuses are hotbeds of political correctness and liberal indoctrination. This month, when...
Amid criticism from local and national quarters—criticism that Ohio University officials said was premature—a committee of the institution’s Board of Trustees on Thursday substantially revised a draft “statement of expectations” for the board’s own...
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