While insider and outsiders debate the value of a college degree in today’s market, one criminal attorney has found a surprising utility for a college education: It can help you get parole.
Yearly Archives For 2011
The New DREAM Weaver
A new US Immigration and Customs Enforcement memorandum was released recently with stirring implications.
Behind The Ivory Curtain
Read highlights of the April Accuracy in Academia author’s night that featured veteran economist Richard Vedder in the latest issue of AIA’s Campus Report.
Union History’s Other Side
Violence and coercion are at the heart of the union movement.
Looking for Moderation
Representatives of MPAC, the Muslim Public Affairs Council, said at a June 20 forum on Capitol Hill, that they are concerned with what they see as Islamophobia sweeping the country.
Soros fights for-profit colleges
In a report published this month, the Capital Research Center (CRC), a nonprofit group that monitors the activities of politically active nonprofits, reported that the Open Society Institute, the grant-making arm of left-wing billionaire George Soros’s empire, supported groups advocating tighter regulation of for-profit higher education institutions.
Reclaiming or Redefining Islam?
Noah Bakr, Commissioner of the Montgomery (MD) County Commission on Women who just completed doctorate work in Near Eastern and Islamic studies at Princeton University defines Sharia literally as “a path to the watering hole” but the liquid is not all that clear.
Top 20 Academic Buzzwords
College frequently “means navigating an exhausting gauntlet of pretense and jargon.”
A World Without Tenure
A new book shows us examples of colleges and universities where tenure does not exist and students and faculty alike survive and even thrive.
History Leaping Forward
At least one academic is acknowledging the genocide of China’s communist dictator Mao Tse Tung but not the scale of the chairman’s atrocities.