Current Wisdom

“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.”

“The idea of people owing allegiance to one country, that’s not very common in the world today.”—Margaret Stock, adjunct instructor, University of Alaska-Anchorage, at the Center for American Progress, May 11, 2011.

Princeton “spent $136 million on a new 500-bed dorm, or $277,000 per bed, which is more than $70,000 more than the current median home price.”—Andrew Gillen, A Tuition Bubble: Lessons from the Housing Bubble (Center for College Affordability and Productivity)

“We may obsess about strangers piloting airplanes into our buildings, but in the United States in any year, roughly five times the number of those killed in the World Trade Center are murdered on the streets or inside their own homes and offices.”—UCLA historian Russell Jacoby.

“Don’t try and blow sunshine up my butt.” Rep. Allen West to heckler from CAIR at town hall meeting.

“I think there’s another golden age of television coming if we could just get rid of the Kardashian family.” –screenwriter Norman Steinberg in a recent appearance at the University of Maryland.

“Pragmatism is the magic word to describe what liberals want, but do not want to argue for.”— University of Virginia professor of politics James W. Ceaser

“If Republicans are to remain true to the verdict of 2010, the message of this election cannot be merely containment; it must be rollback.”— University of Virginia professor of politics James W. Ceaser in the Fall 2010 Claremont Review of Books.

“Unable to find work relating to sociology, I eventually found a job with an Internet company in New York City.”—recent college graduate Kelli Space

“You can’t unionize a factory that’s empty.”~N. J. Governor  Chris Christie

“Mitt Romney needs a focus group to put his pants on in the morning.”—Tammy Bruce subbing for Laura Ingraham.

“If some of the logic in Steele’s selection two years ago was that a black chairman would expand Republican Party appeal to minority voters, there’s scant evidence that this was accomplished.”—syndicated columnist Star Parker on Michael Steel, current chairman of the RNC.