University administrators have long advocated pulling their endowment funds out of investments that benefit countries that the elites find odious yet while they have divested themselves of holdings in nations such as South Africa or Israel, they are reluctant to pull their chips out of Iran, no matter how many terrorist watch lists U. S. government agencies put the regime on.
Articles By: Malcolm A. Kline
High Tech Illiteracy
At the same time that American students are becoming more and more technologically adept, they are increasingly less and less likely to possess rudimentary capabilities, data from the National School Boards Association (NSBA) indicates.
Heroic Academic Research
Believe it or not, we came across some outside-the-box academic research that does not look that bad.
No Kindergarten Left Behind
Once again, Republican officials have helped to pave the way for a pet project of the overwhelmingly left-wing educational establishment—all-day kindergarten.
PC Dead White Guy
Believe it or not, there is at least one deceased Caucasian man of letters still revered in academia—playwright Arthur Miller, whose dramas attacked both capitalism and the American way of life even while he personally benefited from both.
Ranks Thin At GWU
Colleges and universities rarely teach cause and effect anymore and it shows. Consider: George Washington University’s drop in the U. S. News rankings on the heels of its student government wrist slap of its former president for the kind of behavior that drives Republican lawmakers out of office.
Paradise LOST
Where academia once tried to give us the best and the brightest, now academics seem to be in a race to be first with the worst, of public policy initiatives that is.
Alger Hiss, Academic Vampire
The liberal cadres that defended him for decades have thinned since career diplomat Alger Hiss was convicted of perjuring himself against accusations that he spied for the Soviet Union. Virtually alone, many academics remain unconvinced.
Gay Camp
To many cynical observers, “Gay Camp” may sound redundant but to the Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Community it is a summer retreat for campus activists.
Ninth Amendment Personals
With just a month to go until Constitution Day, a UCLA psychologist has discovered a privilege buried in the Ninth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution that the framers probably never envisioned—the right of professors to date students.