Taxpayers may not have much reason to feel bailed out and stimulated but university officials do.
Monthly Archives For December 2010
Earmarking Artificial Growth
In an age of limits, colleges and universities are expanding, with the aid of taxpayers with increasingly limited resources.
Not Taxed Enough Already?
A key dividing line between those within the Ivory Tower and those without might be on the issue of taxes: Academics like them while the rest of us clearly don’t.
AP Buys Education Clue
The Associated Press might actually be onto something in its education coverage.
Castro Deems Cuba Obsolete
“The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.”—Fidel Castro, September 8, 2010, interview in The Atlantic
Media Breakthrough on Education
A seminal trend may be occurring in media coverage of education, at least at the K-12 level: The press is starting to notice where the problem comes from.
Israel: Not PC @ BC
In the war on terror, a BC sociologist sees the major problem in the Middle East as—Israel.
Bill of Rights Day
December 15 is Bill of Rights Day.
Saving Social Security, Again
When trying to convince dubious students of the benefits of social security when they are all too familiar with the costs, professors might well ask the question: “Who are you going to believe, me or your paycheck?”
Enabling the Disabled
Hope springs eternal in the academic breast, at least for the secular.