• Do Radical Professors Produce Radical Students?

  Posted Tuesday, July 14, 2009 3:03 PM | By Kerry Howley
  
  
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  A simple but telling little study from the University of Brussels challenges the idea that college kids are gobs of clay passively waiting to be molded by their professors. In general, students of social science are more likely to graduate college as self-defined leftists, while law and economics graduates tilt the other way. To find out why, sociologists gave various cohorts of university students surveys when they entered their schools and when they graduated. They found that while ... (Read more in DoubleX.)
  
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• Generation Y Is No More Entitled Than The Baby Boomers Before Us

  Posted Monday, July 06, 2009 12:37 PM | By Jessica Grose
  
  
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  The New York Times had an article in its style section yesterday about college students' bleak prospects for employment this summer. The content is entirely unsurprising: We're in a recession where jobs are drying up for everyone. What interested me in this article was the 180 that experts are making on their previous assumptions about Generation Y: ... (Read more at DoubleX.com.)
  Filed under: college, generation Y, millenials, jobs

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