While insider and outsiders debate the value of a college degree in today’s market, one criminal attorney has found a surprising utility for a college education: It can help you get parole.
Articles By: Malcolm A. Kline
A World Without Tenure
A new book shows us examples of colleges and universities where tenure does not exist and students and faculty alike survive and even thrive.
History Leaping Forward
At least one academic is acknowledging the genocide of China’s communist dictator Mao Tse Tung but not the scale of the chairman’s atrocities.
Academics Endangered By Freedom
The very people who cry out for academic freedom—the professoriat—are most likely to suppress it.
Million-Dollar Man
If the CEO of any business became a millionaire overnight by a vote of the board, you would have heard about it by now. When a college president achieves this feat, though, it gets covered by—the college newspaper.
Will labor rulings beget Catholic Reunification?
Those Catholic colleges and universities that sought their independence from the Mother Church back in the 1960s may want to seek its protective custody now.
Too Cool For School
Those who would herd millions of Americans into college never wonder if they might be better off somewhere else. Perhaps they should.
CINO Schools Lose Foothold
One Catholic college made the U. S. News & World Report lists of “most popular” among applicants and “most loved” by alumni and it is none of the ones the media like to cover—those institutions that could be called Catholic in Name Only (CINO).
Ivory Tower Economics
Academic economists find that they can make whatever prognostications they like since they don’t have to live with the results.
Just Send Money
“We like legislation with broad expectations in which the curriculum is left to faculty to develop.” –
Paula Compton, Associate Vice Chancellor, Ohio Board of Regents at the Center for American Progress. Ohio has “50 faculty panels which write learning outcomes the university is trying to achieve.”