Tom Shakely

Explaining College as Oversold and Underperforming

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George Leef joins Andy Nash on InsideAcademia.tv for this week’s conversation exploring college’s distorted sense of institutional importance, and what alternatives students might have outside of a campus education. Leef, ...

The Sustainability Agenda

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Ashley Thorne joins Andy Nash in the latest episode of InsideAcademia.tv to discuss the issue of sustainability on campus. Thorne and Nash delve into sustainability’s three core parts: economic, environmental, ...

‘Free Market Environmentalism’ on Campus

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Terry Anderson joins Andy Nash this week on InsideAcademia.tv for a discussion on “Sustainability and ‘Free Market Environmentalism.’” Anderson is executive director of the Property and Environment Research Center. He ...

Re: Penn State’s ‘Historic’ Budget Cut

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Last week I wrote on “Penn State’s ‘Historic’ Budget Cut,” pointing out that Graham Spanier, the president, has been engaging in histrionics and avoiding a hard accounting after Gov. Tom ...

On Penn State’s ‘Historic’ Budget Cut

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Penn State president Graham Spanier has been engaging in hard core histrionics in response to Gov. Tom Corbett’s state budget proposal, which would reduce taxpayer appropriations by 53 percent. “Abraham Lincoln ...