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The 10 Fastest Growing Jobs For College Grads
1. Home health aides $20,184/yr
2. Network systems and data communications analysts $58,420/yr
3. Medical assistants $28,589/yr
4. Physician assistants $64,670/yr
5. Computer software engineers, applications $70,900/yr
6. Physical therapist assistants $36,080/yr
7. Dental hygienists $26.59/hr
8. Computer software engineers, systems software $74,040/yr
9. Dental assistants $28,589/yr
10. Personal and home care aides $20,184/yr
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College Board
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A Controversy at Post-Catholic Georgetown
By John Leo
Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, is scheduled to speak Friday at a Georgetown University commencement event, setting off protests among Catholics and others who believe the Obamacare mandate violates religious liberty. So far, some 25,000 people have signed petitions asking for the invitation to be withdrawn. On campus, the reaction seems more tepid: only 9 of the 1500-plus faculty members... Continue reading...
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The Undisciplined Discipline, Jay Schalin, Phi Beta Cons, May 15
Campus and Camp, John Thelin, Inside Higher Ed, May 15
Riley's Arrow, Peter Wood, NAS, May 15
Carefully Addressing Controversial Speech at UMass Lowell, Kissel, FIRE, May 14
A Rip Van Winkle Plan?, Jane S. Shaw, Pope Center, May 13
Censoring Naomi Riley, John Fund, NRO, May 12
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May 15, 2012
Philip W. Semas, president and editor in chief of the Chronicle of Higher Education, is irritated at the Wall Street Journal. On May 9, the Journal ran an editorial castigating the Chronicle for "craven-ness" in firing conservative blogger (and former Wall Street Journal editor) Naomi Schaefer Riley. She had argued in the Chronicle that college black-studies programs are little more than 60'-style radical advocacy and ought to be eliminated. What is fascinating about Semas's complaint, expressed in a four-paragraph letter published yesterday in the Journal, is that it continues a process of quietly shifting the reason for the firing away from Riley's supposed failure to meet "the Chronicle's basic editorial standards for reporting and fairness in opinion articles" (as a statement by Chronicle editor Liz McMillen declared). The likely reason for this shift: the Chronicle had never communicated any standards to its bloggers, as several media reporters have pointed out.
Continue reading "The Chronicle Can't Seem to Get its Story Straight" »
May 14, 2012
A new report from Demos, a policy and advocacy center, titled The Great Cost Shift: How Higher Education Cuts Undermine the Future Middle Class "examines how state disinvestment in public higher education over the past two decades has shifted costs to students and their families."
Continue reading "What Cost Shift to College Students and Parents?" »
Why did the Chronicle of Higher Education fire Naomi Schaefer Riley? Writing on the American Thinker site, Abraham Miller offers a deft and elegantly phrased explanation: "for revealing what almost everyone on any campus knows, but is reluctant to say, about black studies: it is a political cause masquerading as an academic discipline, and if there were real intellectual, and not political, standards on campus, it would be shut down."
Continue reading "Why She Was Fired" »
The removal of Naomi Shaefer Riley from the blogging staff of the Chronicle of Higher Education has been widely circulated in the cybersphere and the press, including Riley's own account in the Wall Street Journal and many of our own contributors at Minding the Campus. All of them understand the psycho-political dynamics behind the whole affair, but people unfamiliar with the social climate of higher education may not understand how Riley could have provoked such a harsh and voluminous reaction from the academic community, albeit given her provocative post.
Continue reading "The Insecurity of Black Studies" »
May 10, 2012
One of the finest virtues of mindingthecampus.com, in addition to its willingness to permit me to speak my mind on many matters, is its mix of insiders and outsiders who comment about this crazy quilt called academia. The word itself is interesting - Merriam-Webster online reports its first use in 1946, which leaves over two thousand years for the now less-used academe with the quaint reminder in the OED: "The best academe, a mother's knee." Indeed, the best academe has been a subject of intense debate for as long as something like it has existed, though, I reckon that mothers know best that sometimes you have to step back and take a deep breath.
Continue reading "The Journalistic Encounter with Academia" »
May 9, 2012
The controversy over the Chronicle essay by Naomi Schaefer Riley provided an unusually rich insight into the mindset of defenders of the academic status quo. Over and over again, Riley's critics advocated either a blatant double standard or transparently absurd positions. Take a few examples:
On the double-standard front, in a twitter exchange with FIRE's Adam Kissel and me, Indiana (PA) professor John Wesley Lowery criticized Riley on the following grounds: Riley's "essays were intellectually dishonest. A. [Readers should] know field is worthless by reading dissertations B. I didn't."
Continue reading "On Double Standards and Fantasy-Land Arguments" »
Mona Charen, The Corner
This is a test of integrity. Naomi Schaefer Riley has been fired by the Chronicle of Higher Education for expressing views that some liberals find uncongenial. That's it. Just uncongenial (she critiqued the doctoral theses of candidates in black studies). Not "offensive." Not even that weasel word "insensitive" -- far less "racist." This represents a profound corruption of the principles that should animate academia and a free society generally. Where are the liberals protesting this assault on liberty and civility? Waiting . . .
Continue reading "The Chronicle's Firing of Naomi Schaefer Riley: Excerpts from Commentary, Pro and Con" »
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The Naomi Schaefer Riley Scandal - From the Desk of the Dean
By Herbert I. London May 10, 2012
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Emory University: Ben Carson, Johns Hopkins University neurosurgeon and humanitarian, and 2008
Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient.
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Manhattan College: Cardinal Timothy Dolan of the Archdiocese of New York
and John Esposito, retired president and CEO of Bacardi U.S.A., Inc.
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Nyack College: Steve Forbes, chairman and editor-in-chief of Forbes Media, and Michael Louis, chairman of hotels, vineyards
and strategic Initiatives for the Louis Group International of South Africa.
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Bryant University: Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University.
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Dartmouth College: Wendy Kopp, founder and chief executive officer of Teach for America.
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Gettysburg College: Jacqueline Novogratz, founder and CEO of Acumen Fund.
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