Texas Public Policy Foundation launches SeeThruEdu.com

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Sep 12, 2012, 01:03 ET

New website offers daily postings by leading higher education experts

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Texas Public Policy Foundation's Center for Higher Education unveils a new website, SeeThruEdu.com, which focuses on higher education reform. The site offers daily postings by leading higher education experts from across the country.

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"SeeThruEdu.com serves as part resource bank, part discussion area bringing national resources to state scenarios for the principles of academic rigor, fiscal transparency, affordability, and accountability," said Thomas Lindsay, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Higher Education at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. "We assembled some of the best minds in academia to offer their thoughts on important reform issues in the higher education realm."

Content published at SeeThruEdu.com ranges from commentary to academic reports, and provides fresh perspectives that challenge much of the current discourse and offer constructive alternatives.

Contributors include:

John Alvis, Ph.D., is Professor of English and Director of American Studies at the University of Dallas.

Mark Bauerlein, Ph.D., teaches English at Emory University.

Frank Buckley is a law teacher at George Mason University and the author of several books, including The Morality of Laughter.

Lindsey Burke is the Will Skillman Fellow in Education at The Heritage Foundation.

Stuart Butler, Ph.D., is Distinguished Fellow and Director, Center for Policy Innovation, at The Heritage Foundation.

Brandon Dutcher is vice president for policy at the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs.

Mary Grabar, Ph.D., founded Dissident Prof, www.dissidentprof.com, and teaches English part-time at Emory University.

Joshua Hall, Ph.D., is the Elbert H. Neese Jr. Professor of Economics at Beloit College and Associate Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity.

Christian Kopff, Ph.D., teaches Classics at the University of Colorado.

George Leef, J.D., is Director of Research for the John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy.

Thomas K. Lindsay, Ph.D., is the Director of the Center for Higher Education at the Texas Public Policy Foundation.

Neal McCluskey is the associate director of the Center for Educational Freedom at the Cato Institute.

William Murchison is a columnist for Creators Syndicate and retired Baylor University professor.

Robert Paquette, Ph.D., a prize-winning historian, co-founded in 2007 the independent Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization.

Ron Trowbridge, Ph.D., is Senior Fellow at the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and Assistant Editor to SeeThruEdu.com.

Richard K. Vedder, Ph.D., is the Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and the author of several books, including Out of Work: Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America (with Lowell Gallaway).

Jim Windham of Houston is a retired banker who serves as Chairman of the Texas Institute for Education Reform.

Scott Yenor, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Political Science Department at Boise State University.

Anonymous Professor of the Humanities/Social Sciences at a Texas public university.

Anonymous Professor of Education at a Texas public university.

Thomas K. Lindsay, Ph.D., is the Director of the Center for Higher Education at the Texas Public Policy Foundation.

The Texas Public Policy Foundation is a non-profit, free-market research institute based in Austin.

Primary website: www.TexasPolicy.com

Facebook page: www.Facebook.com/TexasPublicPolicyFoundation

Twitter feed: www.Twitter.com/TPPF

SOURCE Texas Public Policy Foundation