Once upon a time, the FBI actively recruited agents from Catholic colleges like Georgetown. Now, they would be lucky to find a reliable witness there.
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UB Faculty Opposes Choice
A full-out attack on the University of Buffalo Students for Life has been launched, by faculty members. It turns out they are only pro-choice when their own viewpoint is chosen.
Academics Protesting Too Much
If professors spent as much time entertaining information from the other side as they spend denouncing charges that the academy is biased, there would be no academic bias.
Current Wisdom 2012
Here is the first part of Accuracy in Academia’s compendium of current wisdom for 2012.
RMPs Pass Academic Test
Some observers such as your servant have been dismissed for reading and relating the anonymous reviews found on Rate My Professors.com.
Best-Laid Plans Backfire
Academics salivate at the chance to put their pet theories into practice but when they actually are able to, they’re usually the last ones to recognize the unintended consequences of their schemes.
Worthy of Note
Washington Examiner columnist Noemie Emery, who writes some of the most thoughtful think pieces around, offered an interesting commentary on what cerebral folks like to call the Zeitgeist—loosely translated as spirit of the times.
A World Without Tenure
A new book shows us examples of colleges and universities where tenure does not exist and students and faculty alike survive and even thrive.
Public Intellectual Rejects Scrutiny
Academics rarely miss a chance, in or out of the classroom, to promote their ideas. What they do far less frequently is invite inquiry.
Palintologists @ The MLA
At almost any gathering of the self-described intellectual elite, it seems that irrationally celebrating hatred of Sarah Palin is practically mandatory. The 2011 Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention was no different.