“What do you call Democrats with kids?” goes a joke of fairly recent vintage. “Republicans,” is the punch line. Former CNN reporter Campbell Brown may not have reached that point yet but she has become…
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The Constitution and Original Intent are Still Relevant Today
Contrary to the assertions of critics of the original intent approach to the Constitution, super majority rules, such as requiring a two-thirds majority to amend the Constitution, “tend to produce desirable constitutional provisions” such as…
Kaplan University Takes On Obama
The U.S. Department of Education’s latest rule, the “gainful employment” or GE rule, mandates that for-profit colleges cannot saddle students with debt at an arbitrary rate. However, it affects only for-profit colleges such as Kaplan,…
Coming to a university near you
Before you find him on offer as a university speaker or course, you may want to read the meticulously documented story of Cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal by former Accuracy in Academia executive director Dan Flynn.
STEMming China’s Student Espionage
When the reasons mount for rethinking cherished academic practices, academia doubles down on those procedures. For example, as the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) and others have shown, there is no shortage of science, technology,…
Paul Kengor on Why We Should Study Ronald Reagan
Although it may be considered quaint to recall the Reagan years during the Obama era, particularly in academic circles, a case could be made for doing so. “And though Barack Obama won two terms, he…
Common Core: Beyond Rote
As we’ve noted before, when proponents of the Obama Administration’s Common Core education reforms try to make the case for the program, they often end up giving material to its opponents. Case in point: the Center…
MESA Culpa
Accuracy in Academia has proudly joined a distinguished cadre questioning the federal funding of biased Middle East studies programs in American universities and colleges, and academic elites in those programs don’t like it one bit….
Republican Sighted in Academe!
Academia is up in arms. The board of trustees at Florida State University (FSU) just named a Republican to be its president. Something called the FSU Progress Coalition just posted its concerns on the Academe…
MOOCs Expand, Homeschoolers Beware
The School Reform News, published by the Heartland Institute, found there are over 1,200 massive open online courses, or MOOCs, offered by over 200 universities and taken by an estimated ten million K-12 students. Florida…
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University Student Detained by Border Patrol due to Illegal Immigrant Status, University Organizes Release Efforts
A student who attends the University of California-Berkeley was detained at the U.S.-Mexico border because he was an illegal immigrant and had no legal papers. Now, the university is fighting to get him released from detention.
Diversity Course at East Carolina University is Ineffective at Changing Students’ Biases
A diversity course at East Carolina University was found to be ineffective in changing students’ racial and gender biases, the instructor found.
Antifa Activist Loses in California Court to UC Berkeley CR
Now this usually doesn’t happen.
Blues for Orange Bowl Champs
A college football team staying in a Trump hotel for the Orange Bowl should be easy material for a progressive wit, if you could find a witty progressive.
Carnegie-Mellon Celebrates Karl Marx Bicentennial
And they’re going bananas doing it.
“Hate Speech” Not Covered By First Amendment
Some of us become First Amendment absolutists after decades of watching attempts by both the political right and left to find exceptions to it.
Getting Unemployed By Degree
Following the “no good jobs without college” mantra to it’s logical conclusion, one might conclude that if some higher education is good, more is even better.
Georgetown University Claimed Jesuit Values Fulfilled in Approving LGBT Exploration Space for Residents
Georgetown University’s resident life administration approved a proposal to let students who are exploring their gender to have a specific resident space at the university.
California Community College Now Allows Free Speech without a Permit
A California community college will no longer require permits to hold free speech related events on their campus.
School Tries to Simulate History Lesson on Taxes, but It Leads to Confusion
A school simulation of the pre-Revolutionary War Stamp Act went awry in Virginia, leading the school administration and teachers to apologize for not explaining the simulation clearly to parents.
Book Review
Book Review: Is ‘The Dying Citizen’ a Prediction of America’s Future?
America’s ongoing and seemingly-constant crises have left Americans scrambling to find a sense of normalcy and safety. Just in time, to cut through the chaotic bombardment of conflicting messages and opinions while providing a voice…
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The Origins of Political Correctness
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Ayn Rand Reconsidered
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