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Attempts by the U. S. Department of Education to tighten the reins on the Ivory Tower may already be backfiring on the very colleges and universities that welcomed the move.

Here are the highlights so far.

Contrary to what is frequently reported, when colleges actually do face budget cutbacks in the amount of state and federal aid that they receive, professors can usually avert them.

Read about the case against tenure in the latest issue of Accuracy in Academia’s monthly Campus Report newsletter.

Václav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic, in a Hillsdale College-sponsored cruise event, spoke about the roots of the current economic problems facing the European Union (EU), as well as its significance to Americans.

They found a guilty convict.

Allowing charter schools can allow for a plethora of benefits both inside and outside the classroom.

We have written on the academic ambivalence towards the tenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks upon the United States here, here, and here. The actual memorial even brought outright denial from academe.

GLEN COVE, NY — Once, detective stories were an essential element of popular fiction. That their golden age has long passed is a sad commentary on today’s educational and cultural environments.

Accuracy in Academia will celebrate Constitution Day with presentations from We Read the Constitution and Accuracy in Media at the next AIA Author’s Night on September 12, 2011.

“We were waking up from a dream in the ’60s, and it was not easy to wake up, especially with all the drugs we were taking.”—singer Judy Collins in an interview with The Washington Post.

“Some people may escape poverty and low incomes through education, but a problem arises when education becomes the only escape route from those conditions—because that road will very quickly become bottlenecked.”—John Marsh, assistant professor of English at Penn State