After the holidays, when Congress prepares to reauthorize Title VI of the Higher Education Act, legislators should take a cold, hard look at the case of UCLA’s Center for Near East Studies (CNES), a recipient…
Monthly Archives For December 2014
Jonathan Gruber’s Mini-Me’s
MIT economist Jonathan Gruber got his 15 weeks of fame in 2014 when videos surfaced in which he candidly admitted to deception, and a jaundiced view of American public opinion, while promoting Obamacare as it…
The Constitution: Dead or Alive?
If indeed there is a problem with the Constitution, perhaps it is that it is not being followed in a bipartisan fashion. Read about it in the latest issue of Accuracy in Academia’s monthly Campus Report newsletter.
Merry Christmas from us at AIA!
Accuracy in Academia would like to wish you and yours the merriest of Christmases and the happiest of new years!
Journalism Professor at Michigan Hates Republicans
A feminist professor of communications at the University of Michigan has become a laughingstock for a poorly-sourced column in a socialist newspaper about the academic basis for hating Republicans. In the article, Susan J. Douglas…
Brick and Mortar.Edu
Students may be increasingly opting to get their degrees online but universities still dismiss them as a fad. “Udacity does have one partnership with a research university—Georgia Tech,” Udacity’s vice president of business development Clarissa…
Feeding the STEM Myths
As we have reported, contrary to current wisdom, studies consistently show that there are more science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) majors than there are STEM jobs. Nevertheless, those with a vested interest in perpetuating…
Study: Pornography hurts Couples and Relationships
There are certain givens in life, things we take for granted because they’re so obvious. In cultural terms, one of them is that pornography is a plague, a moral disease contributing with increasing tenacity to…
Colbert Report visits D.C. and George Washington University
His poll ratings may be in the basement and his policies might have mostly blown up in his face but there is one place where the president can still boost his self-esteem. Stephen Colbert, the…
The Real Millionaire’s Club: College Presidents
If you’re still looking for the one-percenters, you might try checking out college campuses rather than corporate boardrooms: As tallied by the Chronicle of Higher Education, 36 college presidents were paid more than one million…