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How an NC academic publisher ended up under FTC sanction

Robert Tian appears prominently in both the Allied Academies and the North American Business Press publishing networks. It is unclear what the relationship between these two large publishing groups may be or if they are both part of a wider network.

David N. Bass
Opinion

Should American degree programs borrow from their European counterparts?

A well-designed general education program can provide a breadth of important knowledge, as well as writing and analytical skills that employers often say are lacking in recent college graduates. Still, many students consider general education a waste of time and view courses unrelated to their majors as unnecessary obstacles.  Should higher education cater more to those students, who are interested...

Shannon Watkins
Opinion

Obscenity for Fun or Salvation

This spring Bill O'Reilly, host of Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor," devoted several segments to the obscene goings-on in a human sexualities class at the University of Kansas. Viewers were told how Prof. Dennis Dailey showed "highly explicit" material including nude images of little girls, said he understood how some could be pedophiles, held a "wheelchair sex day" in class, showed pornographic films, compared one photograph of a female's spread genitals to the Virgin Mary, and also made obscene gestures to students who demonstrated offense.

Jon Sanders

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