A college professor offered the type of big-picture analysis we used to expect from academics but rarely get anymore.
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Federal subsidies=high tuition
“By the way, government subsidies have impacted upon rising tuition costs,” Vice President Joe Biden admitted last month at Florida State University.
The Sharia Next Door
Imagine living in a world where dictator-run uprisings would affect the way you live your life.
Academic Honesty about waste
Everyone who is honest about academe knows that colleges and universities tend to be wasteful and plagued by expensive redundancies.— Andrew Delbanco, professor of humanities and director of American studies at Columbia University.
Putin: A Happy Face?
In Russia, will March be the new October?
Renewables on Life Supports
Contrary to what is usually reported, despite the attention given “renewable energy,” traditional sources of power offer more benefits.
Abstinence Education Adds Up
A study published last year by the American Journal for Health Studies by Kennethy F. Ferraro (PhD) and Karis A. Pressler (MA), showed that students in abstinence-only education got higher math grades.
Academic Gives Catholics Academic Answer
& seems to miss the point.
No Core Left Behind
George W. Bush’s now infamous and highly debated domestic and once celebrated bipartisan policy, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), sought to raise the national quality for students in reading and math by 2014.
Catholic Split Media Misses
When the media have bothered to cover the controversy over the Obama Administration’s edict forcing Catholic institutions to provide free birth control, sterilization and abortificants, it has focused on young Catholics who dissent from the Church position.
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Student Activists Unhappy over Western Civilization Curriculum due to Ignoring ‘Voices of People of Color’
The Western civilization curriculum must better represent the “voices of people of color,” claimed ‘Reedies Against Racism’ student activists at Reed College.
The Biggest Loser, Newspaper Reporter Ranked as Worst Job in America for Third Year in a Row
Newspaper reporters is the worst job in America for the third year in a row, writes AIM Chairman Donald Irvine.
“Drag Queen Story Hour” Sends Cross Dressers to Read to Children
Cross-dressers, or “drag queens,” are being sent to read books to children to focus society more on “queer-centered kids programming.”
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Free Speech is More Threatened Than Ever
Freedom of speech is threatened and the best method to protect it is to sanction (i.e. punish) those who oppose freedom of speech on college campuses.
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Berkeley Op-Ed: Free Speech is Overruled by ‘Safety of the Marginalized’
Free speech doesn’t matter as much as protecting the ‘safety of the marginalized,’ claimed a student at the University of California-Berkeley in an op-ed.
University of Iowa Held Three-Day Workshop on White Privilege
Surprise! Taxpayer dollars went to fund a three-day white privilege event at the University of Iowa.
College Freshman in North Carolina Pushes to Ban Confederate Flag in Local School District
A freshman student at the University of North Carolina is pushing to ban the Confederate battle flag from a North Carolina school district, which idea came from an anti-racism workshop she attended at college.
Thomas Aquinas College Acquires Property in Massachusetts
Thomas Aquinas College was selected as the institution to purchase a historic property in Massachusetts, which will allow the college to open an East Coast campus for their students.
Textbook Gets Bill of Rights, Right
In a bit of shocking news, a Virginia textbook got the Bill of Rights, right.
Feminist Journal Apologized for Article on ‘Transracialism’
A prominent feminist journal was criticized for publishing an article on ‘transracialism,’ or the idea that people can claim a different racial identity than their birth race.