The governor of Texas, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, got a first-hand taste of what college life is like for conservative students on a foray into an Ames, Iowa coffee shop.
Articles By: Malcolm A. Kline
The Everyman Elite
The authors who are read most widely are those who are no longer around. Former Accuracy in Academia executive director Dan Flynn pays homage to a quartet of them in his latest book, Blue Collar Intellectuals.
Free Speech Endangered Again
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) may have actually latched onto a case in which the first amendment rights of a left-wing professor are genuinely at risk.
RMPs Pass Academic Test
Some observers such as your servant have been dismissed for reading and relating the anonymous reviews found on Rate My Professors.com.
Life & Death in Academia
Putting the power of life and death in anyone’s hands is a dubious undertaking, to put it mildly. Giving such responsibility to a pair of academics is questionable, at best.
War College’s Identity Crisis
Marrying the professoriate to America’s fighting force is a marriage even a Las Vegas official wouldn’t bless yet such a union is taking place right now in Pennsylvania.
Radical Reforms From Inside Academe
Recently, from inside of academia, veterans of academe have made proposals for reforming higher education that may be among the most far-reaching of any to come from colleges and universities in many a decade.
OWS Goes Uptown
Fresh from Occupying Wall Street, demonstrators are training their sights on the City University of New York which is planning on raising tuition.
Loans Down The Hatch
“Should teenagers who are too young to drink be allowed to take out five-figure loans?”— Eric Hoover in The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 2, 2011.
Of Unicorns and Universities
“One might sooner see a herd of unicorns march down Wall Street that a world where student loans are interest-free.” Eric Hoover in The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 2, 2011.