Out of 47 total professors, only 1 donated to a GOP candidate. Groupthink?
Topic: academia
Professor in Trouble after Not Pushing Expensive Textbook in His Course
Not believing in pushing expensive college textbooks to college students has a price, apparently.
College Republicans Get Clever in Mocking Hillary Clinton
As the College Fix reported: This summer, as Clinton visited Los Angeles for a fundraising stop, College Republicans from across Southern California converged outside the Democratic headquarters on Wilshire Boulevard to protest Clinton’s hypocrisy, participants told The…
Health Care Rationing, from a Professor’s Perspective
It’s really dangerous, for patients anyway, when policy wonks decide what type of health care is necessary. “In popular understanding, rising health-care spending is often viewed as an inevitable consequence of advances in medical technology,…
Ignoring Climate Change = Sin, says Religious Studies Professor
Someone is a bit over-the-top regarding the intersection of religion and climate change/global warming.
“Politically Correct” is Now a Microaggression, Wisconsin University says
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee says that “political correctness” is an example of causing microaggressions.
Ole Miss Student Senator Faces Backlash after Voicing Support for State Flag
Political correctness strikes again, this time, over the Mississippi state flag.
Reading Racial Tea Leaves at University of Maryland
In this era of racial unrest, academic efforts to achieve understanding are welcome. Unfortunately, opportunities to misinterpret abound in academe. “Younger generations have made great strides,” Liam Farrell of the University of Maryland writes in…
USC may ask for $100 Million Scholarship Fund for Minority Students
But will this actually help stimulate reform in higher education, where the outrageously-high tuition discourages the poor and minorities from attending college? Nope.
Humanities Tries to Defend Itself against Mounting Criticism
Are humanities courses going the way of the dodo? Are they going to become extinct?!