by jstewardfree | Aug 20, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Derek Thompson | Forget about the mythical throngs of Ivy-educated baristas. Companies have essentially frozen entry-level salaries for even the smartest graduates. When young people do things that confound the rest of the country—like take forever to find their...
by jstewardfree | Aug 18, 2014 | Grey Matter
By David Skeel | After Hobby Lobby, a Christian college asked for a different kind of exemption. Then came the backlash. When D. Michael Lindsey, the president of a well-known Christian college in Wenham, Mass., called Gordon College, signed a letter to...
by jstewardfree | Aug 16, 2014 | Course and Scholarship Updates
Is inoffensive speech good for society? Dave Berry, Michael Bloomberg, Ben Carson, and others define and debate political correctness. AVERAGE TIME: 2 HOURS. 1,000 IMPACT POINTS. Sign in to the class here to learn more about this course experience, which is free for...
by jstewardfree | Aug 13, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Stanton L. Jones | It is bracing to have my institution—Wheaton College—held up in the pages of The Chronicle as the embodiment of “The Great Accreditation Farce,” the headline on Peter Conn’s essay. Conn suggests that Wheaton and other religious colleges are...
by jstewardfree | Aug 11, 2014 | Grey Matter
By David Murray | One out of every five Americans has some disability. Seven percent of Americans have mental limitations or illnesses that interfere with their daily functioning. Only 16 percent of people with a severe disability such as deafness, legal blindness,...