There is little doubt that Title IX has led to the explosive growth of women’s sports programs, but at what cost?
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The Campus Political Establishment
At Bucknell University there are offices staffed by paid employees of the university who spend their time encouraging students to adopt their political views.
The Parent Gap
Republicans are winning parents at the polls, and this “parent gap” has Democrats worried.
My Battle With the Thought Police
If I made one mistake, it was that I was too cooperative and waited too long to go on the offensive.
Columbia Culpa
Although Columbia University administrators claim that a committee appointed by its president cleared the school of charges of an anti-Israel bias that borders on anti-Semitism, their feeling of exoneration may be a bit premature.
Anti-Military Career Day?
Jamesville-DeWitt High School
administrators have decided to permit the left wing group “Peace Council” to protest military recruiters at Career Day.
Another View on Wanted: Conservatives (Not)
A student who has taken classes by a professor we wrote about three months ago has taken issue with our coverage of a professor at the University of Tennessee. That student’s response follows.
A Tale of Two Economists: Hoppe and Summers
Both economists started out in their respective ordeals along very similar paths. But one showed courage, grit and determination, the other cowardice.
Dress Code at Harvard?
A few weeks ago, the Harvard faculty went off on President Larry Summers because he said there are differences between men and women in math and science. Good thing he left out librarians.
Seeing Red
To calm the troubled masses of poor students that live in fear that the test they took or the paper they turned in would be returned with scores of red pen marks denoting their mistakes, schools are now eliminating the color red as a correction color.
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Anti-War Movement Found @ MLA
Many have wondered what happened to the anti-war movement since President Bush left office. We think we found it, at the Modern Language Association (MLA).
MLA doing Iran’s Bidding
Although the title of a panel at the Modern Language Association indicated it would be a forum for dissident Iranian artists, the panelists made few claims that the dictatorship there might dispute.
Are MOOCs the Future?
Professors from Stanford, Brigham Young University and University of Colorado at Boulder claimed that massive open online courses, known as MOOCs, are not a threat to their profession, while simultaneously showing their colleagues how they could get in on the action.
Flawed History @ MLA
Perhaps one of the unfortunate byproducts of the lumping together of English and History under the rubric “Humanities” is that English professors start to think of themselves as historians. When they try to be, they prove that they are not.
Zero Dark Thirty @ the MLA
The MLA held a panel discussion on American torture policy, according to comic books and popular movies like Zero Dark Thirty or V for Vendetta.
Cuba Onstage, Castro Off
At the Modern Language Association’s “Cuba on Stage” panel in Chicago, Fidel Castro escaped criticism and mention by name from several art and music professors.
Autism Speaks & Articulately
One remarkable facet of disability studies: when the “disabled” actually speak, they do so with greater clarity and less jargon than those who would purport to study them.
MLA Israeli Boycott Falls
At the Modern Language Association (MLA) 2014 convention in Chicago, delegates defeated a resolution to boycott Israel akin to one proposed by the American Studies Association (ASA), which had put forward an academic boycott this past year with the public support of Stephen Hawking.
The Chattering Classes of 2013
All the professors we wrote about last year are back. See what they said and did in 2013 in the latest issue of Accuracy in Academia’s Campus Report newsletter.
The Antidote to Bullying?
“The findings reveal that students attending schools in which bullying prevention programs are implemented are more likely to have experienced peer victimization, compared to those attending schools without bullying prevention.”