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Syllabus at Duke barred staffers of campus paper from class on hedge funds. Economics department officials have remained tight- lipped since. College Endowments Opt for Alternative, and Less Lucrative, Route New York Times Returns for college and university endowments for the 2017 fiscal year are in... Over the last decade they have underperformed funds offering a simple 60- 40 or 70-30 stock-fixed income allocation. Anyone anywhere could have taken a class at UC Berkeley, at their own pace... That is, until the disability-rights movement complained to the Department of Justice... The easiest course, administrators concluded, was simply to pull the content from the Internet, so that disabled members of the general public will no longer have to be subjected to such discriminatory offenses... Berkeley Goes Offline Weekly Standard
The latest trend in lavish amenities at colleges is lazy rivers, which have been installed at several big institutions, including the Universities of Alabama, Iowa, and Missouri. Last year, Louisiana State University topped them all with a 536-foot-long “leisure” river in the shape of the letters “LSU,” part of an $85 million renovation and expansion of its gym. It was LSU students who footed the bill. The Eleven Most Ridiculously PC Moments of 2017 National Review Potential “microaggressions” on college campuses... wearing hoop earrings, eyebrows, taking exams, emotional commitment to schoolwork, clapping, timeliness, and math. National Academic Standards Have Produced a Lot of Nothing Real Clear Education The latest results show a widening achievement gap. Students at the top end of the scale are scoring higher and those at the bottom are scoring lower than when the Common Core standards were first adopted...
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