Higher Education may be on the downward slide to oblivion but its proprietors haven’t quite entertained that prospect yet.
Articles By: Malcolm A. Kline
Choice From the Ashes
In the search for silver linings, school choice advocates can look to the hope that emerges in devastated regions.
AIA @ 28 & Counting
A problem faced by both Accuracy in Academia and its big sister organization Accuracy in Media: Our goal—an accurate elite—seems ever more elusive by the year.
House GOP Identity Crisis
On higher education, as on a host of issues, U. S. House Republicans offer unique criticisms, then wind up proposing solutions to crises that resemble those of the Democratic Party.
Oh Canada
“And the country I was born in had no meaningful civil liberty tradition whatsoever: Canada!”— Donald Alexander Downs, Alexander Meiklejohn Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, on accepting the Bradley Foundation’s Jeane Kirkpatrick prize at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
UW-Madison Draws Blank
The unprecedented exodus of appointees from a Democratic presidential administration to the Ivory Tower continues unabated.
Professionalism Hits New Low
Apparently, the lack of professionalism among college grads is so acute that even their professors are starting to notice.
High Rolling on Hudson
St. John’s University President “describes himself as a ‘Brooklyn guy,’ suggesting a naivete about the high-rolling lives of Saudi princes and other money men who have given prolifically to St. John’s over the years.”~Chronicle of…
Sustainability Behind The Curve
Although universities have long been envisaged as incubators of new ideas, in actuality they usually provide life support to concepts long-time passed.
Porcine Education Grants?
A government watchdog group has criticized at least one federal education scholarship program.