It seems that law school is not the recession-proof profession that budding barristers thought it was. Indeed, they may become barristas first.
Yearly Archives For 2011
Ivory Tower Occupation
There is an odd sort of ying-yang going on between the Occupy Wall Street protests and institutions of higher learning.
AIA DINNER: CRAZY U
Accuracy in Academia will feature veteran journalist and the author of Crazy U, Andrew Ferguson, at the next AIA Author’s Night on October 26, 2011.
Academic Measures Media Bias
Accuracy in Media actually found a conservative media critic at UCLA.
More Hope & Change
Amid all the depressing news about the failures of business schools, particularly the more well-known ones, there is a ray of hope.
Hope & Change in Harrisburg
On the face of it, opening a new university in this day and age would seem to be akin to selling refrigerators to Eskimos.
Penses on public schools
University professors need not be performance-oriented once they have gained tenure.
Greatness W/O Great Society
“The United States had become a great and powerful nation before it centralized administration.”—John Marini of the University of Nevada-Reno at Claremont Institute forum on October 20, 2011.
Soft Scholarship Through Software
“Nine of 10 major educational software products on the market have no effect on test scores, the federal Department of Education found in 2009.”—Heather McDonald of the Manhattan Institute.
Star Professors Channel Sixties
Noted academics seem to view the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations as a means of recapturing the 1960s, particularly if they missed the latter decade on the first go-round.