The Hollow Men: Politics and Corruption in Higher EducationIn his sequel to ProfScam, Sykes traces the decline of college curricula and shows how students and their parents are paying more money for less education. Sykes also examines the extreme politicization of the American campus and argues that this environment is producing hollow men and women with no more than a brief expose to the great books and ideas of Western civilization. |
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... schools as diverse as Brown , Emory , Penn State , Tufts , Michigan , * and Wiscon- sin imposed new gag laws , aimed at speech deemed offensive to the official ideology . At the University of Connecticut , students faced ex- pulsion ...
... schools as diverse as Brown , Emory , Penn State , Tufts , Michigan , * and Wiscon- sin imposed new gag laws , aimed at speech deemed offensive to the official ideology . At the University of Connecticut , students faced ex- pulsion ...
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... schools , under the direction of the state's top educator . 19 The report indicts the current curriculum of the schools for what it calls " deep - seated pathologies of racial hatred " and urges " sweeping changes " in the curriculum ...
... schools , under the direction of the state's top educator . 19 The report indicts the current curriculum of the schools for what it calls " deep - seated pathologies of racial hatred " and urges " sweeping changes " in the curriculum ...
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... school's curriculum that declared - italics and all - that " Dartmouth now pro- claims itself in effect a small university ... schools , the push for professional rather than general education , the emphasis on specializa- tion , and the ...
... school's curriculum that declared - italics and all - that " Dartmouth now pro- claims itself in effect a small university ... schools , the push for professional rather than general education , the emphasis on specializa- tion , and the ...
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