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This is not a joke: The University of Wisconsin-Madison has pledged to hire more counselors in the wake of students claiming the state’s flagship university is fraught with microaggressions and racial bias. “I’m accelerating the hiring of additional student support counseling services … for student mental health issues related to diversity and climate,” Chancellor Rebecca Blank […]

When a student at Wesleyan wrote an op-ed in the student paper last month questioning whether the Black Lives Matter movement has had unintended consequences, protests erupted and the president spoke out, essentially, on the student’s right to free speech. “Freedom of speech, in its popular understanding, does not protect Black Lives Matter advocates who […]

Editor’s note: See what happens when we get rid of tests.  The Fox Business Network (FBN) should be congratulated for launching a six-month investigation into the Federal Aviation Administration’s hiring practices, an investigation revealing complicity between the FAA and diversity groups such as the National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees (NBCFAE). The findings were revealed […]

This is the week that Americans honor military veterans. On America’s college campuses, the attitude towards them is more ambivalent, at least when their presence is compared to their visibility in the rest of America. For one thing, not every campus is closed for Veterans Day. To be sure, many businesses stay open upon that […]

This morning several national organizations, including the Louis D. Brandeis Center, are issuing the following statement on reform of Middle East Studies programs, many of which have become highly politicized sources of anti-Israel propaganda:   WASHINGTON and SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. – Sept. 17, 2014 – With Congress considering the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act (HEA) in several […]

Ironically, this mandate which seemingly advocates for gender equality is overwhelmingly represented by women.

The worth of college is greatly contested , particularly to those who might hire graduates.

For years, claims of liberal biases on college campuses have run rampant. Peter Wood and Michael Toscano of the National Association of Scholars set out to test these claims in a thorough investigation of Bowdoin College.

Here is the first part of Accuracy in Academia’s compendium of current wisdom for 2012.

Just one of the many misconceptions about conservatives, particularly in the academy, is that we all come off of an assembly line. To preserve this fiction, academics prefer to study us from a distance, if at all.

Academics have always had a hard time accepting the service academies even when they work for them.

A panel discussion was held at the Center for American Progress to discuss the role of the private sector in education on Thursday, May 31.