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From Yale: Those Thoughtful Liberals
Read this piece on the National Review Online's college blog: Phi Beta Cons.
From Yale: Modern Feminists (are wrong)
The March/April issue of Yale Alumni Magazine features an article called, “The Baby Gamble” by Nadya Labi that ponders the question of why there aren’t as many tenured women as men at Yale: Of 381 tenured professors, only 71 are women (and over half are in the humanities department – not terribly surprising). “One solid hypothesis,” Labi writes, “is motherhood.” That is, that being a mother and taking care of children requires time and effort. Shocking.
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From Tulane: Universities, Inc.
Updated on Tuesday, March 21, 2006 at 11:02AM by
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Look at a typical modern university (let’s call it “Big Time University, Inc.”). BTU may be a registered non-profit organization, but it has the spirit of a big corporation, focused on profitability, metrics, efficiency. It’s not as though the education BTU provides for its clients is bad; in fact, it’s quite good – but it’s not what it ought to be. And this has everything to do with the corporate mentality of the leadership. The business of America may be business, as Calvin Coolidge once posited, but the business of a university is something else entirely.