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Dr Buch’s Full Listings of Articles, Essays, Chapters, and Books
Americans Have Not Turned Against Higher Ed. Reports of the sector’s cratering popularity are mistaken, The Chronicle of Higher Education, By Kevin Carey and Sophie Nguyen October 15, 2024 Americans are losing faith in the value of college. Or so we are told. As many colleges grapple with declining enrollment and intense…
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Malcolm is Correct, and the lesson applies to dealing with petit bullies
I have known in my time, petit bullies, pro-vice-chancellors, and even vice-chancellors with silence before public demand for change. Those executive officers who do have genuine conversations on the ‘demands for change’ are not bullies. The petit bullies are those executive officers who feel that they have no need to have the genuine conversation. …
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Why is Australia so afraid to expand its higher education sector? John Hewson’s The trap of student caps
Dear friends and decision makers, Why is Australia so afraid to expand its higher education sector? John Hewson’s The trap of student caps. This is John Hewson, the dry, for God’s Sake! The government policy, and policy for a long time, has been to create a culture-history warfare…
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The Sea of Faith and The Theological Technical House of Horror (Paid Advertising)
David Miller Moderator Top contributor Hi Neville – You have informed us that: “Most educated Christians are more heretical than the ancient Christians of Rome.” I will list some of their modern all-pervasive heresies: 1. The Marcionite Heresy: That the God of the NT is loving and merciful, whereas…
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Why the film Heretic? Why Heretic Humanism?
Sam has asked me to write a paragraph on this question because persons are troubled by horror. It is the same conventional reaction to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, which is a film directed by Kenneth Branagh. Horror disturbs conventional thinking. To be a heretic is to be a proponent of heresy, which is any belief or…
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NDB MIND-BODY-COGNITION VENN
Populist conversations misconstrue references and semantics to “Mind”, “Body”, and “Cognition”, which are confusions in theses of hard materialism, vague spiritualism, and centralism inaccuracy. The Venn Diagram here demonstrate the correct relations and terminology coming out of compatibilist philosophies, cognition histories and sociology, and comprehensive education. Mind is an emergent property…
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How are we dying? Data from SMH
Thank you, Shane Wright, for “How we die in Australia”, Sydney Morning Herald, October 10, 2024 — 7.45pm. Interesting that other cancers than Prostate, Bone-Blood-Lymphatic, Colon, Lung, do not make the list. In memory of Ruth.
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The Problem of Australian Sandstones Universities
Dear UQ Vice-Chancellor, This is the statistic you need to understand: University of Oxford, United Kingdom, No. of FTE Students: 22,095; No. student per staff 10.8; International Students 43%; Female-Male Ratio 51 : 49. University of Queensland, Australia, No. of FTE Students: 41,249; No. student per staff 37.6;…
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Announcement: Cognition Histories and Sociology Book
After the failure to find a publisher to support the publication of “the Intellectual (Hidden) History of Queensland”. I am moving onto a new major book project, coordinated with the other informally contracted book project: 1) on Humanism; 2) on the Fellowship of Australian Writers Queensland (FAWQ) and; on the Level Playing…
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Weeping Tears of Joy and Sadness: Calling Local Politicians to Accountability
Watching the video of Boundary Road Rail Level Crossing Flythrough October 2022, I wept. Jesus Wept (John 11:35). It is weeping of joy and sadness. Joy because, finally, a beautiful solution has been reached in the Boundary Road Rail Level Crossing Flythrough. Sadness because my parents passed in their 90s in recent…