Faculty Lounge

As is our custom here at Accuracy in Academia, we are kicking off the new year by bonding with thousands of English professors from around the country and around the world at the Modern Language Association (MLA) annual convention.

We found another rarity: an academic who defends Reaganomics.

We’ve actually found a rare academic species—a conservative law school professor.

While the NEA’s activist plans failed to take root in a Wisconsin second grade class, one of the most effective formulas for propagandizing children outside of school is through the movies.

Proving that it’s never too early to sign up new recruits for the cause, the NEA recently offered a $5,000 “Learning and Leadership Grant to two Wisconsin teachers.

Rachel Vermillion, a student at Brigham Young University, recently went through an embarrassing experience when she was banned from re-entering her exam center for wearing skinny jeans.

In a departure from traditional classroom fare, Georgetown University students might have to bring “woofers and turntables to class” this semester instead of books, according to the College Fix, which reported that the school is offering an academic course about Rapper Jay-Z.

Apparently the days of students working their way through school at McDonald’s drive-through window are just about numbered.

In case you were wondering, a writer for American School magazine gave a helpful guide to the way that generations break down these days. According to Kerry L. Roberts:

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.

Fresh from Occupying Wall Street, demonstrators are training their sights on the City University of New York which is planning on raising tuition.

If the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations seen quite un-American, maybe that’s because they are, at least in their point of origin.