Dozens of prominent education programs across the country demand that their students promote social justice.
Monthly Archives For May 2005
Sex Ed Curriculum Scrapped
On May 23 the Montgomery County School Board voted to completely scrap a controversial sex education curriculum.
Class Notes
Fired essentially for no other reason than acting on her conservative Republican beliefs in her free time, acclaimed sociologist Jean Cobbs has long been a dissident whose tribulations AIA has followed with concern.
Campus PC Rebellion
Parents aren’t the only ones bristling over campus political correctness battles, and the prospect of paying over $200,000 per child for four years of college. Contributions from alumni have declined steadily over the past several years and now hover around 13 percent.
CINO Spotlight on DePaul
Given the school’s propensity to discipline professors who make pro-Israel statements and defend those who attack Church policy and traditions, a case could be made to name DePaul University in Chicago as a college that is Catholic in Name Only.
What UNC Needs in a President
The University of North Carolina system is hunting for a new president. Molly C. Broad, the current president, has announced her resignation.
Climate Control
Global warming alarmists in academia who seek to extend their influence beyond the controlled environs of their own classrooms are getting help from admiring moviemakers
Free Muslims March on Washington
While most students hear one view from the Middle Eastern Studies department on their college campuses, another is emerging albeit without the attention that most Middle Eastern Studies departments get.
Graduation Speeches
In the next couple weeks many students will attend their graduations with proud parents and family members. They are likely to hear a liberal speaker.
For the children?
Hang on to your wallets, it’s budget time. Expect K-12 funding, a perennial line item favorite, to continue increasing at a much higher rate than the cost of living.