Inside Higher Ed: "Whereas other U.S. universities have established overseas branch campuses bankrolled by oil-rich nations -- initiatives inspired in part by promises of profit -- Bard has gone to places where resources are scarce but problems are plentiful. Bard’s signature international initiative has been to establish dual degree programs in countries that are post-Communist, post-conflict or -- as in the case of its partnership with Al-Quds University, a Palestinian institution in East Jerusalem -- at the crossroads of continuing conflict."

Huffington Post: "Irrationality and Anti-Muslim Stereotyping."

A blog about "Afghanistan, counterinsurgency, and whatever else we might fancy" by "three infantrymen" and "two grad students."

Daily Camera: "The happiness that comes from caring about others, the rewards of being a visionary activist and a world in which women and men are equal and women's rights are understood as human rights: Those were Melanne Verveer's three wishes for Naropa University's Class of 2010."

"Over the past decade, it has become de rigueur in progressive and lefty Jewish settings to be studying Talmud as part of a discussion of workers’ rights, or to include Maimonides’ medieval code in a discussion of the death penalty, or to quote from the writings of twentieth-century Orthodox Rabbinical jurists to make a point about trying minors as adults. So what does this all mean? I would like to suggest that this marks the third stage in an evolution from a desacralized language of social justice to the current reclamation of the language of tradition."