When public officials proclaim that they are acting “for the children,” look to see how much skin they’ve got in the game.
Articles By: Malcolm A. Kline
Education Not Spelled J-O-B-S
Doubtless the president’s amen corner in academia loved it when he answered a debate question on jobs with a dissertation on education. Yet while academics may have stomped and whistled, those unenlightened folk outside the faculty lounge might be forgiven if they find the First Answer clueless.
Rewarding Bad Behavior
3 presidents at public colleges, including Penn State’s Graham Spanier, made more than a million in 2010-2011. —Chronicle of Higher Education almanac.
Shariah’s American Breeding Ground
We now know that the Muslim Students’ Association (MSA) in the United States served as a incubator for the spread of Shariah law in the Mideast. No less a personage than Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi can count himself an alumnus of the MSA.
Obama’s Academic Fight Club
Conspiracy theorists may go bananas over the latest evidence of collusion between higher education and the Obama Administration, but it may just be a case of birds of a feather working together, albeit more closely than ever.
Won’t Back Down Opens
“Won’t Back Down” has already had previews at the Republican and Democratic conventions and was “well-received in both places,” the film’s producer Chris Flaherty said at the blogger’s briefing at the Heritage Foundation on September 25, 2012.
The Ultimate Corporate Welfare
36 college presidents made more than one million dollars in 2009–Chronicle of Higher Education almanac. —Chronicle of Higher Education almanac.
How Universities Define Essential
It’s interesting to see the value system at work among university administrators when they actually have to cut their budgets.
Academics Celebrate Obama Prematurely
Even given the longstanding urge of academics to treat Democratic presidents the way the Catholic Church once treated saints, the academic Left may have been a bit hasty when it rushed to canonize the current occupant of the White House.
Obama In The Classroom
President Obama’s approval ratings in his last academic post were not as high as we’ve been lead to believe.