The Chronicle of Higher Education | Letters to the Editor http://chronicle.com/section/Letters-to-the-Editor/56/ Opinion & Ideas :: Letters to the Editor Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:48:37 EST <![CDATA[Dissing the Inarticulateness of, Like, Youth]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130622/ http://chronicle.com/article/Dissing-the-Inarticulateness/130622/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:48:00 EST <![CDATA[The Past, Present, and Future of German Studies]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130618/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-Past-PresentFuture/130618/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST <![CDATA[Technion Society Is Not a 'Fund-Raising Office']]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130666/ http://chronicle.com/article/Technion-Society-Is-Not-a/130666/ "The New York-based American Technion Society was founded in 1940 as an independent organization dedicated to raising support for the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology."

]]> Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST <![CDATA[Adviser to Protesters: Grow Up. Pay Up.]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130670/ http://chronicle.com/article/Adviser-to-Protesters-Grow/130670/ "The 'Pledge of Refusal' ... what a thought."

]]> Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST <![CDATA[Queer Activism vs. Queer Theory]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130457/ http://chronicle.com/article/Queer-Activism-vs-Queer/130457/ Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:03:00 EST <![CDATA['Queer' Academic Project Not Dead]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130455/ http://chronicle.com/article/Queer-Academic-Project-Not/130455/ "Queer studies--at least in linguistics, and at my university--remains a vital and vibrant enterprise."

]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST <![CDATA[Researchers Are Not the Only Good Teachers]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130478/ http://chronicle.com/article/Researchers-Are-Not-the-Only/130478/ "Is Mr. Mendillo suggesting that the only worthwhile courses are those taught by research faculty?"

]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST <![CDATA[Maryland Lawsuit Is Hardly 'Unusual']]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130481/ http://chronicle.com/article/Maryland-Lawsuit-Is-Hardly/130481/ "Maryland has been warned for over 40 years by the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights that its higher-education system was segregated."

]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST <![CDATA[Public Philosophy Network]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130389/ http://chronicle.com/article/Public-Philosophy-Network/130389/ Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:48:00 EST <![CDATA[The Matters of Philosophy]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130388/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-Matters-of-Philosophy/130388/ Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:31:00 EST <![CDATA[How to Fix Sports in 8 Not-So-Easy Steps]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130413/ http://chronicle.com/article/How-to-Fix-Sports-in-8/130413/ "First, end all athletics scholarships."

]]> Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST <![CDATA[Secondary Schools Should Concentrates on the Basics, Not AP Courses]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130371/ http://chronicle.com/article/Secondary-Schools-Should/130371/ "Most AP science teachers in high school have a master's degree in education, suggesting that they must have struggled with their own science courses in college."

]]> Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[AP Courses Are the Equals of Their College Counterparts]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130370/ http://chronicle.com/article/AP-Courses-Are-the-Equals-of/130370/ "The teachers who have the talent, education, and drive to teach Advanced Placement courses should be celebrated for what they do."

]]> Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[The Question of Branch Campuses Abroad]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130288/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-Question-of-Branch/130288/ Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:04:00 EST <![CDATA[Philosophers and Pigs: An 'Immoral' Pedagogy]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130341/ http://chronicle.com/article/PhilosophersPigs-An/130341/ "If aiding in the slaughter of the innocents is what the new 'public philosophy' might stand for, let's hope that philosophy returns quickly to its nonpublic work inside the walls of the academy."

]]> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST <![CDATA[Our Animals, Ourselves]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130282/ http://chronicle.com/article/Our-Animals-Ourselves/130282/ Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST <![CDATA[2011 News Quiz Is in Poor Taste]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130351/ http://chronicle.com/article/2011-News-Quiz-Is-in-Poor/130351/ "Prescription-drug abuse by college students is no laughing matter."

]]> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST <![CDATA[Don't 'Sinify' Courses for Chinese Students]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130350/ http://chronicle.com/article/Dont-Sinify-Courses-for/130350/ "Chinese students appreciate that U.S. educators can bring to their lives unique experiences and perspectives and perhaps challenge them to think in unaccustomed ways."

]]> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST <![CDATA[What the Heck Has Happened to Standards?]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130342/ http://chronicle.com/article/What-the-Heck-Has-Happened-to/130342/ "Before we lament the decline of value in one area of life—sports—perhaps we should look at the greater society in which sports exist."

]]> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST <![CDATA[Employment Testing Is Not 'Pseudoscience']]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130325/ http://chronicle.com/article/Employment-Testing-Is-Not/130325/ "There is, and has been for many years, a highly respected academic discipline devoted to the development, validation, and use of employment tests."

]]> Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[Pennsylvania Policy Is Unfair to Graduate Students]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130324/ http://chronicle.com/article/Pennsylvania-Policy-Is-Unfair/130324/ "Graduate students must now pay 60 percent more than undergraduate students for the same undergraduate courses, though graduates receive no graduate-level services in return."

]]> Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[University Presses' Commitment to Translation]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130208/ http://chronicle.com/article/University-Presses-Commitment/130208/ Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:16:00 EST <![CDATA[Philosophy in Nevada Is Alive and Well, but for How Long?]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130204/ http://chronicle.com/article/Philosophy-in-Nevada-Is-Alive/130204/ The University of Nevada at Las Vegas needs "to face squarely the attitudes--the external ones ... that place philosophy departments under threat."

]]> Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST <![CDATA[Virtue and Idealism Are No Match for Sports Revenue]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130246/ http://chronicle.com/article/VirtueIdealism-Are-No/130246/ "It's not that we haven't been aware of what was happening."

]]> Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST <![CDATA[Is the Candidate Smarter Than This Form?]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130247/ http://chronicle.com/article/Is-the-Candidate-Smarter-Than/130247/ "If a program wants quantitative ratings, why not ask for high-quality data?"

]]> Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST <![CDATA[New Cause for Protesters: Community Colleges]]> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130251/ http://chronicle.com/article/New-Cause-for-Protesters-/130251/ "If student protesters want to do something constructive, they should lobby state legislatures to allow community colleges to cover the second two years of baccalaureate undergraduate education."

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