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The Credibility Cartel: How Accreditation Leaves Students in the Dark

Students are increasingly concerned about high costs and decreasing quality in higher education. But a major cause of those problems,…

Making the Most of College: How Personal Purpose Colors the University Experience

...approaching college with purpose will animate your university years with color and infuse them with deeper meaning. You won’t be…

On Cloud Nine or Crying Their Eyes Out: How Emotionalism is Destroying Student Culture

Slowly but subtly, a change is taking place in university culture. Once havens for free speech and the discussion of…

Campus Media Response: Let the Free Market Guide Choices for Higher Education

With classes starting up again, President Obama took the opportunity to state his vision for the future of American higher…

To Study or Not To Study

The false alternative between achieving academic goals and having fun Each September, students arrive on college campuses and prepare for…

Taking the Pain out of Productivity

The problem with the perceived divide between work and life. With graduation day looming for this year’s college class, millions…

Campus Media Response: The Roots of the Objectivist Campus Revival

Objectivists Expand Presence The Stanford Review, January 8, 2010 Dear editors, Jordan Carr claims that a revival of Ayn Rand’s…

Sacrifice Before Solvency

Business schools fail their students by emphasizing altruism rather than the virtues of wealth-creation. With the global economy in tatters,…

Campus Media Response: Access to Water is not a Right

Thirsting After Sanity, March 26th, 2009 The Gauntlet The University of Calgary Sir— In your article you argue that by…

University Mission Statements: False Promises or True Commitments?

Colleges and universities are identified as institutions committed to the pursuit of knowledge and the promotion of free speech. A…