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...college accreditation, according to Casey. An earlier version of the reauthorization would have given states the power to accredit universities, but this provision was dropped, Pals said. State control over which colleges can award diplomas or receive federal financial aid for their students would have interfered with academic freedom, he said. Another measure modified in the final legislation would have forced colleges to accept students’ transfer credits, even if the courses taken did not reach colleges’ academic standards, Pals added. Last reauthorized in 1998, the Higher Education Act may be debated in the Senate as early...
...20th Century,” that he believed that the military buildup was consistent with his reluctance to commit forces abroad.“I did not arm to attack,” he wrote. “We armed so that we could negotiate from strength, defend freedom, and make war less likely.”Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein ’61, who served as chairman of Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1982 to 1984, praised Weinberger’s defense policies, calling him “a powerful intellectual...
Meanwhile, Ellwood has fiercely defended Walt’s right to express his views. "Throughout this episode, I have sought to be driven by one principle above all others: maintain academic freedom for our scholars and our school," Ellwood wrote in an e-mail to members of the KSG community Friday...
...statement to The Crimson, Dershowitz said that Mearsheimer and Walt "make outrageous and unsupportable claims; they invoke academic freedom in the marketplace of ideas, but then they refuse to participate in the marketplace of ideas by declining reasonable debate about their position...
...that they have chosen-not what I have chosen. My trips are all for legitimate reason and I was very much involved in advancing the conservative agenda overseas-whether it's working against Christian persecution in China or advancing the conservative cause in England with Margaret Thatcher or pushing freedom and democracy in Moscow or getting persecuted Jews out of the Soviet Union, or fighting Communists and socialists in Central America. When you go to those places, you are with the people that you're meeting with. You're staying in the hotels that you meet...