The reaction to movie icon Clint Eastwood’s “debate” with an unoccupied stool representing President Obama at the Republican convention has, predictably, extended to the faculty lounge.
Articles By: Malcolm A. Kline
Another Race U. S. Loses
It turns out that the United States may be losing out on yet another international education comparison.
Childhood Memories
“College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life.”—U. S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc.
Is Title IX Directive Legal?
The U. S. Department of Education is using a federal anti-discrimination statute in a way that is sure to drive even more men off of college campuses, where they are already a minority.
Students’ Slight Turn Right
Even on the economic issues that underpin the Occupiers’ angst, it is difficult not to notice that while businesses remain boarded up from coast to coast, government agencies do not.
MidEast Video Game
Academics frequently take we unlettered folk to task for trivializing serious issues. It turns out that they can take us to school on how to do just that.
The Business of Academia
Academics are hardly shy about offering businesses advice but they go ballistic when industry deigns to return the favor.
Out-Of-Closet Traditionalists
“I’ve spent most of my life in academia, and can say with some conviction that most professors have no friends or colleagues who are out-of-the-closet traditionalists.”— Robert Maranto (rmaranto@uark.edu) , 21st Century chair in Leadership at the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas.
Public School Nationalism
Arguably America’s public schools worked better when there were truly local. Yet a series of U. S. presidents—Republican and Democratic—have added even more centralization to the schools.
Publish & Perish
Mark Regnerus, a sociologist at the University of Texas at Austin, is in such a position right now.