There is an odd sort of ying-yang going on between the Occupy Wall Street protests and institutions of higher learning.
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AIA DINNER: CRAZY U
Accuracy in Academia will feature veteran journalist and the author of Crazy U, Andrew Ferguson, at the next AIA Author’s Night on October 26, 2011.
Academic Measures Media Bias
Accuracy in Media actually found a conservative media critic at UCLA.
Hope & Change in Harrisburg
On the face of it, opening a new university in this day and age would seem to be akin to selling refrigerators to Eskimos.
Penses on public schools
University professors need not be performance-oriented once they have gained tenure.
Greatness W/O Great Society
“The United States had become a great and powerful nation before it centralized administration.”—John Marini of the University of Nevada-Reno at Claremont Institute forum on October 20, 2011.
Soft Scholarship Through Software
“Nine of 10 major educational software products on the market have no effect on test scores, the federal Department of Education found in 2009.”—Heather McDonald of the Manhattan Institute.
Star Professors Channel Sixties
Noted academics seem to view the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations as a means of recapturing the 1960s, particularly if they missed the latter decade on the first go-round.
Return of the Sixties
The links between tenured radicals and Occupy Wall Street are not hard to find.
Academia: Engine or Caboose?
The latest academic to argue that academia drives economic growth offers a long list of inventions spawned by universities but she might be missing a key ingredient.
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Survey: District of Columbia is Second-to-Last in Financial Literacy
The capital of the United States has the second-to-last financial literacy rating in the entire nation, according to a recent survey.
Anti-Capitalist Protesters Block Traffic at Indiana University
An anti-capitalist student group marched from campus to block traffic and shout slogans such as, “Whose streets? Our streets” at Indiana University.
Title IX Administrators Think Obama is Still President
Apparently, college administrators who handle Title IX cases still think that Obama is the president and seek to defend Obama’s Title IX policies under President Trump.
Progressive Ideas have been in Colleges, Government for a Hundred Years
Progressive ideas have been in government and college institutions for at least 100 years, suggested a college professor at a conservative conference.
No More Free Speech Zones in Colorado
Colorado lawmakers passed a bill, which was later signed into law by the governor, to remove ‘free speech zones’ from the state’s college campuses.
Flagler College Retroactively Approved Free Speech Event after the Event was supposed to be held
Flagler College approved a student’s ‘free speech ball’ days after the event was supposed to take place.
Colleges Try to Get Rid of Inconvenient Professors
Our friend George Leef wrote an insightful piece on how some college professors are working against their own in the name of political correctness and feminism: Consider Professor Dennis Gouws of Springfield College in Massachusetts….
Duquesne Students Worry an On-Campus Chick-Fil-A Creates Unsafe Environment for LGBT Students
Really? LGBT students will be fearful once a Chick-fil-A is built on Duquesne’s campus, claimed some student leaders.
California University Instructor Fears Backlash for Teaching Anti-Trump Course
An instructor at the University of California-Santa Cruz feared backlash and outcry if news of his anti-Trump course went public.
UCLA Professor Continues to Fight Administration on Limiting Enrollment in ‘Free Speech in the Workplace’ Course
UCLA professor Keith Fink, a conservative, is continuing to fight his department over their enrollment limitations for his “Free Speech in the Workplace” course.
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
Emerson College: ‘Homosexual’ is Offensive to Gays so Stop Using It
Self-Identifying Marxist Professors Outnumber Conservatives as College Professors
Ayn Rand Reconsidered
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