While many academics blame the Bush administration for Hurricane Katrina, at least one is blaming Ronald Reagan.
Read the articleObservers trying to make sense of what is going on in education today will find it easier to do so when they can see one salient trend: Double standards predominate and they usually benefit the political left.
Read the articleIf the policies of former President Jimmy Carter seem more successful in their college classroom retelling than they do when matched up against the historical record, it might be because so many alumni of the one-term chief executive’s administration are themselves academics.
Read the articleThe recent Air Force Academy report concludes that there is no “overt religious discrimination” taking place at the Academy, but there are examples of “insensitivity.” What is not being reported is the insensitive climate that has been created for practicing Christians.
Read the articleAlthough rarely mentioned in any college courses on Africa, the Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole is literally the father of African Nationalism, the title of a book that he wrote in 1959.
Read the articleRon Johnson of Kansas State University walks through a revolving door into and out of his job as advisor to the school paper, alternately being fired and rehired and fired again by the school, all in the name of diversity.
Read the articleThe push towards equality in education has made a casualty of excellence, a political science professor finds.
Read the articleThe ways in which America’s colleges and universities are rotting are many. Perhaps the most bitter pill to swallow is that despite the decay, the cost of college has ballooned more than tenfold in real terms in the past quarter century.
Read the articleAn Accuracy in Academia Address by Dinesh D’Souza Delivered at AIA’s 1999 Conservative University at Georgetown University Racism is Not the Problem: Why Martin Luther King Got It Half Right I feel funny being back here at Georgetown. I was here a few years ago, actually debating the dean of the law school, a woman […]
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