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    #31
    12 Colleges Whose Payoff In Pay Beats Harvard's

    Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), for instance, stands out she says because it concentrates on computer engineering. In today's world, that's a good thing on which to concentrate: "There's lots of opportunity, and new graduates are paid very well. It's not as tough a market as some others"—e.g., 18th Century organ music.

    http://abcnews.go.com/Business/12-co...ry?id=17273504

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      #32
      Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
      12 Colleges Whose Payoff In Pay Beats Harvard's

      Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), for instance, stands out she says because it concentrates on computer engineering. In today's world, that's a good thing on which to concentrate: "There's lots of opportunity, and new graduates are paid very well. It's not as tough a market as some others"—e.g., 18th Century organ music.

      http://abcnews.go.com/Business/12-co...ry?id=17273504
      Wow! WPI makes the list of Top 20 smartest colleges.

      http://finance.yahoo.com/news/20-bra...164400109.html

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        #33
        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
        “if a kid is a C student, and their parents think that they’re all-A’s, we do get a lot of pushback: ‘What are you talking about? This is a great paper!’ We have parents calling in and saying, for their kids, ‘Can’t you just give them two more days on this paper?’ Overindulging kids, with the intention of giving them everything and being loving, but at the expense of their character — that’s huge in our population. I think that’s one of the biggest problems we have at Riverdale.”

        This is a problem, of course, for all parents, not just affluent ones. It is a central paradox of contemporary parenting, in fact: we have an acute, almost biological impulse to provide for our children, to give them everything they want and need, to protect them from dangers and discomforts both large and small. And yet we all know — on some level, at least — that what kids need more than anything is a little hardship: some challenge, some deprivation that they can overcome, even if just to prove to themselves that they can. As a parent, you struggle with these thorny questions every day, and if you make the right call even half the time, you’re lucky.
        I have a friend who used to be an administrator in the Newton Public schools. On a nearly daily basis she received written threats of lawsuits from parents over grades. Parents who were college professors would send back papers corrected by their kid's teachers with critiques of the teachers corrections. She was so frustrated by parachute parents and their interference that she left the state and went to a private school in Chicago where behavior like that is not tolerated.

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          #34
          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
          I have a friend who used to be an administrator in the Newton Public schools. On a nearly daily basis she received written threats of lawsuits from parents over grades. Parents who were college professors would send back papers corrected by their kid's teachers with critiques of the teachers corrections. She was so frustrated by parachute parents and their interference that she left the state and went to a private school in Chicago where behavior like that is not tolerated.
          Or so your friend might believe at first, but it exist there as well and the problem is you have administrators who cater to these parents because there is a concern as to where the next tuition check is coming from. I know first hand.

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            #35
            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
            Or so your friend might believe at first, but it exist there as well and the problem is you have administrators who cater to these parents because there is a concern as to where the next tuition check is coming from. I know first hand.
            As someone who has spent some time teaching in elite private schools, if you think powerful parents who donate large amounts of money to these schools in addition to the obscenely high tuition levels do not bring pressure to bear on the administrators over grades, athletic placements, disciplinary issues, etc, I have some real estate I would like to show you.

            I realize you have an agenda with respect to public schools but to make the statement you did, implying that this is unique to public schools and is not tolerated in private schools, is simply one of the most fatuous declarations I have seen in recent memory...and you have had plenty of competition.

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              #36
              http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...ab3_story.html

              Colleges have free speech on the run

              "In recent years, a University of Oklahoma vice president has declared that no university resources, including e-mail, could be used for “the forwarding of political humor/commentary.” The College at Brockport in New York banned using the Internet to “annoy or otherwise inconvenience” anyone. Rhode Island College prohibited, among many other things, certain “attitudes.” Texas Southern University’s comprehensive proscriptions included “verbal harm” from damaging “assumptions” or “implications.” Texas A&M promised “freedom from indignity of any type.” Davidson banned “patronizing remarks.” Drexel University forbade “inappropriately directed laughter.” Western Michigan University banned “sexism,” including “the perception” of a person “not as an individual, but as a member of a category based on sex.” Banning “perceptions” must provide full employment for the burgeoning ranks of academic administrators. "

              "At Tufts, a conservative newspaper committed “harassment” by printing accurate quotations from the Koran and a verified fact about the status of women in Saudi Arabia. Lukianoff says that Tufts may have been the first American institution “to find someone guilty of harassment for stating verifiable facts directed at no one in particular.”
              He documents how “orientation” programs for freshmen become propaganda to (in the words of one orthodoxy enforcer) “leave a mental footprint on their consciousness.” Faculty, too, can face mandatory consciousness-raising.
              In 2007, Donald Hindley, a politics professor at Brandeis, was found guilty of harassment because when teaching Latin American politics he explained the origin of the word “wetbacks,” which refers to immigrants crossing the Rio Grande. Without a hearing, the university provost sent Hindley a letter stating that the university “will not tolerate inappropriate, racial and discriminatory conduct.” The assistant provost was assigned to monitor Hindley’s classes “to ensure that you do not engage in further violations of the nondiscrimination and harassment policy.” Hindley was required to attend “anti-discrimination training.”

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                #37
                Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...ab3_story.html

                Colleges have free speech on the run

                "In recent years, a University of Oklahoma vice president has declared that no university resources, including e-mail, could be used for “the forwarding of political humor/commentary.” The College at Brockport in New York banned using the Internet to “annoy or otherwise inconvenience” anyone. Rhode Island College prohibited, among many other things, certain “attitudes.” Texas Southern University’s comprehensive proscriptions included “verbal harm” from damaging “assumptions” or “implications.” Texas A&M promised “freedom from indignity of any type.” Davidson banned “patronizing remarks.” Drexel University forbade “inappropriately directed laughter.” Western Michigan University banned “sexism,” including “the perception” of a person “not as an individual, but as a member of a category based on sex.” Banning “perceptions” must provide full employment for the burgeoning ranks of academic administrators. "

                "At Tufts, a conservative newspaper committed “harassment” by printing accurate quotations from the Koran and a verified fact about the status of women in Saudi Arabia. Lukianoff says that Tufts may have been the first American institution “to find someone guilty of harassment for stating verifiable facts directed at no one in particular.”
                He documents how “orientation” programs for freshmen become propaganda to (in the words of one orthodoxy enforcer) “leave a mental footprint on their consciousness.” Faculty, too, can face mandatory consciousness-raising.
                In 2007, Donald Hindley, a politics professor at Brandeis, was found guilty of harassment because when teaching Latin American politics he explained the origin of the word “wetbacks,” which refers to immigrants crossing the Rio Grande. Without a hearing, the university provost sent Hindley a letter stating that the university “will not tolerate inappropriate, racial and discriminatory conduct.” The assistant provost was assigned to monitor Hindley’s classes “to ensure that you do not engage in further violations of the nondiscrimination and harassment policy.” Hindley was required to attend “anti-discrimination training.”
                If you think that's bad, check this out. Fordham University invited Princeton bioethics professor, Peter Singer, to speak on campus, but banned Ann Coulter. Here's some of the things Singer had to say.

                “Not so long ago,” Singer wrote in one essay, “any form of sexuality not leading to the conception of children was seen as, at best, wanton lust, or worse, a perversion. One by one, the taboos have fallen. But … not every taboo has crumbled.”

                In the essay, titled “Heavy Petting,” Singer concluded that “sex across the species barrier,” while not normal, “ceases to be an offence [sic] to our status and dignity as human beings.”

                “Occasionally mutually satisfying activities may develop” when humans have sex with their pets, he claimed.

                In addition to supporting bestiality and immediately granting equal legal rights to animals, Singer has also advocated euthanizing the mentally ill and aborting disabled infants on utilitarian grounds.

                In his 1993 essay “Taking Life,” Singer, in a section called “Justifying Infanticide and Non-Voluntary Euthanasia,” wrote that “killing a disabled infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person.”

                “Very often it is not wrong at all,” he added, noting that newborns should not be considered people until approximately a month after their birth.

                http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/12038

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                  #38
                  LOL

                  http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/12123

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                    #39
                    LOL

                    "Harvard Hosts Workshop to Prevent Students From Becoming Arrogant Jerks
                    by Nathan Harden - Fix Editor on December 4, 2012

                    It’s hard to go to Harvard and not become an arrogant jerk. In recognition of this fact, Harvard officials have organized a special workshop to help Harvard students overcome their extraordinary wonderfulness in order to relate better to the little people when they return home for the holidays.

                    It’s Harvard helping Harvard cope with Harvard

                    Here’s the event description from the student affairs office:

                    Home from Harvard for the Holidays: Revisiting Relationships with Family and Friends

                    Wednesday, December 5, 1:00-2:30pm
                    5 Linden Street
                    How do I talk about Harvard at home? Will my friends and family think I’ve changed? Will I still fit in? This workshop provides an opportunity to describe and explore your experiences and questions as you anticipate going home. To register, email slshin@bsc.harvard.edu or cshindler@bsc.harvard.edu.
                    Don’t you love it when elitism comes packaged in the warm, fuzzy language of holiday cheer? Like soldiers coming back from war with post-traumatic stress disorder, Harvard students are so overwhelmed by the shock of realizing how special they are that it is difficult for them to fit in at home with their non-Harvard family and friends.

                    It’s just…so…hard…to feel normal again.

                    We should set up a humanitarian fund to help Harvard students and their families deal with the unique challenges and obstacles they face relating to one another when extraordinary Harvard students return home from college.

                    Email donations and letters of support to iman*******@harvard.edu"

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                      #40
                      http://finance.yahoo.com/news/privat...171406100.html

                      Private college from North Carolina attempts to bring tuition costs down.

                      "As Belmont’s president, Dr. William Theirfelder, explains on the school’s website, school administrators want to “burst the private education tuition bubble,” effectively opening up the opportunity for more than the country’s most financially privileged to take advantage of a private school education."

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                        #41
                        http://www.concordmonitor.com/news/l...college-credit

                        Dartmouth College ending Advanced Placement credit starting with Class of 2018

                        “The concern that we have is that increasingly, AP has been seen as equivalent to a college-level course, and it really isn’t, in our opinion,” said Hakan Tell, a classics professor and chairman of the Hanover college’s Committee on Instruction."

                        “Many high schools have made their AP courses little more than test prep,” said Bob Schaeffer, of FairTest: National Center for Fair & Open Testing. “The common criticism is that they’re a mile wide and a quarter-inch deep.”

                        "he pointed to an experiment undertaken by the college’s psychology department as proof that AP courses often fall short. Rather than award credit for an introductory course to incoming students who got the highest score on the AP test, the department gave those students a condensed version of the Dartmouth course’s final exam. Ninety percent failed, Tell said. And when those students went on to take the introductory class, they performed no better than those who did not have the high AP test scores."

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                          #42
                          http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/02/ed....html?src=recg

                          Test proctors at Arkansas State University spotted a woman wearing the cap while taking a national teacher certification exam under one name on a morning in June 2009 and then under another name that afternoon. A supervisor soon discovered that at least two other impersonators had registered for tests that day.

                          Ensuing investigations ultimately led to Clarence D. Mumford Sr., 59, who pleaded guilty on Friday to charges that accused him of being the cheating ring’s mastermind during a 23-year career in Memphis as a teacher, assistant principal and guidance counselor.

                          Federal prosecutors had indicted him on 63 counts, including mail and wire fraud and identify theft. They said he doctored driver’s licenses, pressured teachers to lie to the authorities and collected at least $125,000 from teachers and prospective teachers in Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee who feared that they could not pass the certification exams on their own.

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                            #43
                            100 Great Ideas for Higher Ed


                            The National Association of Scholars is celebrating its 25th anniversary as one of the nation’s leading advocates for better higher education policy. In celebration of the big two-five, they’ve published a list of 100 very short essays by leading authors, educators and policy experts on how to improve the state of higher education in the U.S.

                            This special publication includes contributions by some big names, such as Tom Wolfe, Victor Davis Hanson, and even Jill Biden, along with contributions by a few lesser names such as yours truly. Some of the ideas on the list are quite intriguing and other quite provocative.

                            Here are some brief excerpts–a few glimpses of the “great ideas” on the list:

                            - REQUIRE PUBLIC SPEAKING
                            Will Fitzhugh, Founder, The Concord Review“It would be great and interesting for all concerned if every college student had to present a one-hour talk on some topic on which he had recently done research…”

                            - INSTITUTE A FACULTY DRESS CODE AND REQUIRE USE OF STUDENT SURNAMES
                            Joseph Epstein, Author, most recently of Essays in Biography
                            “The condition of undergraduate education strikes me as so sad, so wildly screwed up, and so heavily screened off from reality that no single sweeping reform is likely to help. A number of small reforms, though, might make for a beginning. Two I suggest are a dress code and a rigid protocol of address. I suggest these not for students, but for faculty…”

                            - ABOLISH BIG-TIME SPORTS
                            George Dent, Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University School of Law
                            “Big-time sports are corrupting higher education. They should be abolished…”

                            - PUBLISH EMPLOYMENT OUTCOMES
                            Andrew Gillen, Research Director, Education Sector
                            “As college costs continually rise, students are increasingly concerned with the impact attending college will have on future jobs and earnings. Yet virtually no data exist to help inform this important decision…”

                            - REQUIRE PHYSICAL LABOR
                            Charles Mitchell,Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Commonwealth Foundation
                            “Five words: mandatory physical labor, every student…”

                            - LIMIT A AND B GRADES
                            Charles Murray, W.H. Brady Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
                            “Pass a federal law that no teacher in a college or university that receives federal funds shall be allowed to award an A to more than 7 percent of the students in any course…”

                            - BANISH TEXTBOOKS
                            Bradley C. S. Watson, Philip M. McKenna Professor of Politics; Co-Director, Center for Political and Economic Thought, Saint Vincent College
                            “Rely on primary sources exclusively. This can be done readily in most social sciences and humanities disciplines. Even most natural science disciplines could assign more primary source readings to good effect…”

                            And finally, the always lively T. Wolfe:

                            CUT UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION IN HALF; LIMIT THE CURRICULUM; INSTITUTE A DRESS CODE
                            Tom Wolfe, Ph.D., American Studies, Yale, 1957; Author, Back to Blood

                            “1. Cut undergraduate education from four years to two…

                            2. Limit the curriculum, over the two years, to remedial education and core subjects…

                            3. Male students will have a dress code requiring long-sleeved cotton shirts (ties optional) and conventionally cut jackets—e.g., no jacket collars wider than the lapels—whenever they are on campus. Female students will abide by a dress code that, without saying so, makes it impossible to dress in the currently highly fashionable (among young women) slut style.

                            If the students complain that these codes make them look different from most other people their age, the reply is, ‘Now you’re catching on.’”

                            A lot to chew on in this list–occasions to either nod in agreement, or shake one’s head in disbelief. It’s a lengthy but stimulating read.

                            See the full article:
                            http://www.nas.org/articles/one_hund...gher_education

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                              #44
                              University of Chicago tuition 2011-2012: $43,780

                              At the University of Chicago, they are now imitating many of the same kinds of sex-industry sponsored events that were pioneered at Yale:

                              Feb. 13 session, titled “Great Oral Sex: with Tea Time & Sex Chats,” promises a “discussion on going down on men and women” — including “techniques” — all over tea.

                              A Feb. 15 session, entitled “Anal 101,” is advertised as a course on the “logistics and pleasures of anal sex.” It will include lessons on “prep, protection, barebacking, etc.”

                              The how-to sessions continue all the way to the last day with a rope-tying demonstration put on by the Risk-Aware Consensual Kink, which advises those interested in bondage to “bring your own rope, if you can!”

                              The university is also flying in Axel Braun, the director of more than 400 pornographic films, from Los Angeles for a Sunday Q-and-A. The school will show one of his films, “Star Wars XXX: A Porn Parody.”

                              The University of Chicago is actually paying for this corporate sleaze fest with thousands of university dollars that were donated by alumni and parents, whom, I’m sure, had much higher hopes for how their donations would be spent.

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                                #45
                                Tuition including room & board for Americans is a bargain at $30,000

                                From the Canadian University Press website:

                                Everyone is naked. As the DJ spins music on the first floor of Oasis Aqua Lounge in downtown Toronto, a few men in their 20s sprint from the pool to the hot tub without bathing suits. One floor above them, two women — also naked — are perched on a sex swing. Across from them, a man — again, naked — is tethered to the wall in chains and leather binds.

                                These were just a few scenes from Jan. 21′s “epic student sex adventure”, an event organized by the University of Toronto Sexual Education Center (SEC). The party invited university students from across the Greater Toronto Area to visit Oasis, a water-themed sex club a few steps north of Ryerson’s campus.

                                The sex party was one of the first of its kind at a Canadian university. Rather than talk about sex, the event encouraged students to push personal boundaries and explore their sexuality in a safe environment. …

                                (The University of Toronto’s sexual education center) said they made sure to keep the event as safe and sex-positive as possible; condoms and packets of lube were piled in bowls across the club. The event had a laid-back vibe; students could grab a drink at one of the many well-stocked bars and a DJ in the corner blasted beats from a turntable.

                                On the third floor of the club, Ryerson student Kay Poli lounges as couples have sex around him. Pornography is playing on TVs on the walls. For him, the event is nothing new. “I’ve been here before,” Poli said. “What I like about this sex club is that it’s open to all genders, all orientations.”

                                Poli is one member of a new generation of students who frequent Toronto sex clubs. In fact, Oasis has hosted dozens of student-friendly events before. According to Jana Matthews, the club’s co-owner, university students are a regular presence at Oasis.

                                …Despite the media hype, it’s clear sex clubs and bathhouses are nothing new to university students. Toronto’s sex club scene isn’t huge, but it’s far less underground than one might imagine.

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