It sounds like a great idea for a screenplay: sociology student tags along with Secure Borders group to get inside their heads.
Monthly Archives For April 2013
Big Oil/Government Sideshow
Around the world, those two bugaboos are not mutually exclusive.
The Economics of Optimism
Perhaps you can call it the economics of optimism: a George Washington University economist predicts there will be job gains under Obamacare.
Unthinking Mathematics
If you find recent college graduates to be computationally challenged (i. e., unable to do basic math), don’t expect that to change anytime soon.
Administer Me
“Our universities are employing as many administrators as full-time faculty.”—John McNay, president, Ohio Conference of the American Association of University Professors, before the Ohio House Finance Subcommittee on Higher Education.
The Omen
“Most ominously, Americans now question the need – and significantly – the value of a college degree.”—Brian C. Mitchell, on the American Association of University Professors Academe blog.
Deconstructing The Constitution
The U.S. Constitution gets the Rodney Dangerfield treatment (“no respect”) in academia probably more than anywhere else.
Giving back
George Washington University School of Business Hosts 3rd Annual “Business Gives Back” on April 20. What did they take?
Feminism’s All Or Nothing
With women making up more than half of the student body in American colleges and universities, feminists want—the other half.
Wallowing In Crimson Irony
At a time of record public deficits, personal bankruptcies and business failures at home, not to mention fatal U. S. embassy attacks abroad, only an academic could believe we are being well-governed.