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Book Review: Higher Education and Social Inequalities
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December 6, 2019

Book Review: Higher Education and Social Inequalities

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Sizing Up a ‘One Size Does Not Fit All’ Mass Media
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November 25, 2019

Sizing Up a ‘One Size Does Not Fit All’ Mass Media

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Book Review: Writing a Watertight Thesis
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November 20, 2019

Book Review: Writing a Watertight Thesis

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Why Faith in Science Is Critical: Five Questions for Naomi Oreskes
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November 5, 2019

Why Faith in Science Is Critical: Five Questions for Naomi Oreskes

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In Praise of Becoming a ‘Slow Professor’

In Praise of Becoming a ‘Slow Professor’

After a friend gave the reviewer a copy of ‘The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy’ by Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber, it gave him lots of food for thought: Working at a university, after several years of postdoctoral fellowships, why, indeed, not slow down?

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Opening the Door to Allow All Truly Gifted Students Entry

Opening the Door to Allow All Truly Gifted Students Entry

Joni Lakin takes a look at David Lohman’s seminal 2005 work in Gifted Child Quarterly. His paper addresses the issue of underrepresentation while tackling a well-intentioned myth that nonverbal tests are the most equitable way to assess students who come from racial, ethnic, or linguistic minorities in the U.S.

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Writing Social Science Fiction in the Age of the Metrix

Writing Social Science Fiction in the Age of the Metrix

Burned out by the hamster-wheel of academe and the regime of metrics, John Postill decided the tonic would be to write a spoof spy thriller about a Spanish nerd with a silly name who moves to London in 1994 and accidentally foils a terrorist plot by an evil anthropologist.

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Real Fake News: How Parts of the Media Misconstrued ‘Trump Disorder’ Research

Real Fake News: How Parts of the Media Misconstrued ‘Trump Disorder’ Research

It is always important in reporting and media to have a story that is being represented accurately. With skewed assumptions and loaded […]

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HEPI Offers Clarion Call to Protect Free Speech on Campus

HEPI Offers Clarion Call to Protect Free Speech on Campus

Concerns that free speech is being on university campuses, at least in the United Kingdom, are overblown, with the biggest threat originating not on campuses but from the government and its Prevent program. That’s a key takeaway in a new paper from Britain’s Higher Education Policy Institute, Free Speech and Censorship on Campus.

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The Politician in the Pocket

The Politician in the Pocket

David Canter reviews The Handbook of Organised Crime and Politics. Its crucial findings drawn from across studies in Europe, the Americas and South East Asia, is that in many places politicians benefit from the support of criminal organisations. In turn those organisations require the backing of politicians.

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Learning to Communicate Social Responsibility

Learning to Communicate Social Responsibility

While ”corporate social responsibility’ is a staple of conversations in the business world, CSR isn’t necessarily on the lips of those outside the boardroom. That guided Janis Teruggi Page and Lawrence J. Parnell as they wrote the new intro to strategic public relations textbook. That message must have resonated, since the TAA honored the book with one of its Most Promising New Textbook Awards.

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Can Academic Research be a Force for Good?

Can Academic Research be a Force for Good?

The greatest value of research is the positive impact it has on society. In this first blog post from a series looking at seminal academic articles from the SAGE Inspire collection, the editor of ‘Administrative Science Quarterly’ talks about a key 2016 piece on ‘whitening résumés.’

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