Here is the first part of Accuracy in Academia’s compendium of current wisdom for 2012.
Articles By: Malcolm A. Kline
Obama U
We’ve been posting regular updates on the unprecedented run of Obama Administration veterans who have decamped for academe but the University of Chicago just landed a very big one.
Intolerance of Berkeley
Private corporations and foundations can do whatever they want but one would think that the bigger ones would do a bit more research before endowing politically correct administrators with their prestige.
Walking The Line
On sobriety and public schools.
Nerdy In A Different Way
You never know where you will find a trekkie, like on the Pepperdine faculty by way of the Federalist Society.
Circular Logic on Constitution
A Constitutional law professor at Georgetown claims the Constitution is useless because nobody follows it. “When you see how the law works up close, you just cannot miss the tremendous gap between the story law…
Higher Education, Fund Thyself
Martin Kich of Wright State University has assigned blame for the student debt crisis to a variety of factors but missed an obvious one—colleges and universities themselves.
NAACP & Teacher’s Unions
The venerable NAACP has issued its first call to arms for education in nearly a decade.
Constructive Academic News
A university we have long been critical of—Duke—recently got together with the Washington University of St. Louis and Turbo Tax to do something useful.
Academics Of The World Unite!
For years, intellectuals—particularly the academic variety—have proclaimed their solidarity with “the working class” but for one of them, this self-identification goes much deeper.