Perhaps the Obama Administration’s foreign policy is becoming so indefensible that even its best and brightest academic defenders are becoming tongue tied defending it.
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Academics behind Knowledge Curve
When professors attempt to show that they are up on current events, they might prove just the opposite.
Boyz 2 Men, Not
Usually, denizens of that epicenter of arrested adolescence—academia—can’t notice that trend in society at large, or even in their own back yards, or campuses. Gary Cross is an exception to the rule. “For some time, we’ve been…
Is higher ed a job killer?
Those who argue that higher education is a major league time suck just got more ammunition in a report from the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
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Dumbed-Down Common Core
Big name Republicans and putative conservatives signing onto the Obama Administration’s Common Core education reforms in the belief that they will raise standards in public schools may want to entertain the possibility that they will actually lower them.
Stuck in the Sixties
Academics, the very people who claim they want “progress” “going forward,” frequently want to turn back the clock a half century or so.
Columbia Credits Fox
The Columbia Journalism Review, which is not known for its conservative views, published an article yesterday by Alexis Sobel Fitts that credits Fox News for giving opponents more of a voice than does MSNBC.
Universities Want More Money
A team of researchers from Penn looked at the condition of higher education and came to about the same conclusion that academics usually come to when pressed to make a self-examination: Universities need more money.
Common Core: Epic Fail
One of the fascinating things about journalism is looking at the factual data that both sides of a controversy agree on and finding that the facts support the critics’ viewpoints.
Common Core: It Lives!
Opposition to the Common Core education reform efforts of the Obama Administration has crossed political lines to a remarkable degree.
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Clemson has $109,000 Position for ‘Director of Diversity Education’ Position
Clemson has a job opening for a diversity education director and it pays $109,000 a year.
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Egytian Dissident Cynthia Farahat: Middle East Wants Free Markets, Free Speech
Cynthia Farahat, who spoke at Accuracy in Academia’s Author’s Night several years ago, talked about Middle East’s thirst for free speech and free markets in a recent interview with Reason.
Race Hoax at Kansas State Spurs Black Student Union to Call for Criminal Charges
Black Student Union called for criminal charges to be filed against a race hoaxer after the county police did not file charges.
Anti-Israel Forces Attempt BDS by Stealth
Having failed in direct votes on even the most ardently anti-Israel campuses, propoents of boycotting, divesting from and sanctioning Israel and its scholars, BDS forces have been attempting to work their will on academia by stealth.
Notre Dame Reversed Contraception Coverage Decision, Now Will Provide Contraception
Notre Dame reversed their contraception coverage decision, where they opted out of providing contraception on health insurance plans, and blamed their insurance company for it.
Prager U: Despite Protest at University of Wyoming, Dennis Prager Will Speak
Dennis Prager will speak at the University of Wyoming as planned, despite a planned protest of his speech by some students.
Anti-Israel Groups Attack Civil Rights Nominee
Trump Nominee for Education’s Office of Civil Rights Poised to Take on the World’s Oldest Hatred
Protesters Cascade On UO President
When university presidents get even a fraction of the abuse the rare conservative speaker in academe gets, they go into overdrive.
Student Radicals Wage War on Israeli Trees
When do tree-hugging students dislike trees? When they’re in Israel.
Bloody Byproduct of Communism
The half of millennials who think collectivism would be cool to live under should contemplate the history their professors spare them.