All too rarely, you learn something new from a professor that shows you just how much of America’s past most pedagogues fail to digest or pass on, that is, when they can even bring themselves to acknowledge American history in the first place.
Recent Articles
Professor Promotes State Department Sellout
Find out why Alberto Fernandez might be the only Bush Administration official welcome on any college campus.
Thanksgiving Backlog
Like all of you, we know that personally we have much to be thankful for. Oddly, what we have to be thankful for professionally is the politically correct colleges and universities that supply us with an unending stream of copy.
College Rust Out
Concern that American college students may not be learning much during their years in school is not new; nor is it confined to conservative think tanks.
Coleman & Me
The chairman of Accuracy in Media has a close up encounter of the surreal kind with Washington Post columnist turned high school teacher Coleman McCarthy.
UCOL CENSORS CHRISTMAS PARTIES
The University of Colorado attempts to ban Christmas parties.
Charter School Corruption
Not all education reforms work out the way that reformers intended them to.
Academic Watch List
Yale may have extricated itself from one controversy when it rejected the application for a Bachelor’s degree from a former Taliban official already taking classes at the new Haven campus. Nonetheless, today’s sons of Eli foster an atmosphere in which indulgence of terrorism can flourish.
The Illini Initiative
A new online initiative begun by the
University of Illinois, may give this Cinderella a more prominent place than it has had before.
College Cost Time Bomb
As another college semester nears an end, the Department of Education continues to assemble commissions to provide solutions to perceived problems with college education.
Recent Articles
Youngstown State University led Effort to Take Down “Straight Pride” Posters
Administrators at the university took the lead in taking down “straight pride” posters on campus, all in the name of political correctness.
Anti-Semitism in Academe
Update on anti-Semitism in academe in the latest issue of Accuracy in Academia’s monthly Campus Report newsletter.
Courts Find Academics Unexceptional
They may be the big men and women on campus but off campus they are just men and women. “The claim of legal status depends on the prior claim that academics are special, even exceptional,…
Dartmouth Hosts Memorial Day “Blackout” to Remember Black Lives Lost
For a holiday that remembers the service of our military veterans past and present, it seems ridiculous to make it a racially-charged holiday. But, Dartmouth College has done that.
Professor Vaguely Threatens Student Activist over Gun Rights
The College Fix pointed out: “The prospect of students publicly advocating for Second Amendment rights at Blinn College so worried one administrator that she told student activists not to expect to get permission to do…
In Epps Analysis of Executive Order
Editor’s Note: University of Baltimore Law Professor Garrett Epps Strikes Out Again Governor Jindal’s attempt to protect individual rights from government intrusion has received the now all-too-familiar slander and cranky response from those who don’t…
Happy Memorial Day!
We at Accuracy in Academia remember all the sacrifices of American servicemen and servicewomen of years past and present. God bless you and your families and loved ones, and God bless America.
High School won’t let Student Start Pro-Life Club
Yup, censorship at work at our high schools.
University of Wisconsin wants to Teach Students how to become a Thief
Yes, this is a real symposium focusing on advancing radical liberal and socialist agenda like a “thief”: “The symposium, which will also be transmitted to a wider audience via Google Hangout, is described as a…
49% of 2014 College Grads say Their Current Jobs are Beneath Their Skill Level
The College Fix said: “Nearly half of recent college grads say their jobs are beneath their skill level, with 49 percent of 2013 and 2014 college graduates reporting underemployed, a recent Accenture employment survey released this…