Here’s what so-called “teachable moments” in academia generally miss—the decade those moments are in. “There is a revolution taking place in the United States,” Stanford researchers Travis Bristol and Claude Goldenberg write of their Edutopia…
Monthly Archives For June 2015
David Brooks: America’s Next Culture War of Marriage
Good take from David Brooks in the New York Times.
Diversity Dictators on Campus
Apparently university administrators no longer read George Orwell because they don’t seem to recognize how Orwellian their policies are. “Speech codes are almost never identified as such by the many colleges and universities that impose…
The Media’s Vile Attacks on Conservative Assimilationists
Michelle Malkin’s take on the liberal media’s war on conservative immigrant leaders like Bobby Jindal.
Faculty Who Won’t Leave
Tenured faculty may make up an increasingly smaller proportion of the professoriate than in days gone by but they are hanging onto their jobs with both fists. “Tenured faculty age 50 or older can be…
Backer of University of Phoenix Shelled Out $5 Million to Retired Founder
The numbers don’t look good at all. A $5 million retirement bonus to the founder and former chairman of the Apollo Group, which owns the University of Phoenix.
Exempt from Contempt?
There aren’t many instances when the New York Times agrees with Christian conservatives — but the fallout over same-sex “marriage” is one. In yesterday’s edition, the paper gives legs to the growing fear that the…
Toledo Bans Football Coach from Leading Team in Prayer
This happened because of a video that surfaced on YouTube from 2012. Seriously.
Anti-Capitalist Professor at Columbia makes Students Buy His Textbook, but He Ignored it in Class
Sounds like someone made a profit by forcing the purchasing of a textbook unused throughout an entire semester! God bless the American free market system!
Clinton Foundation Took For-Profit Schools’ Money, but Hillary Criticized For-Profits
Sounds like double-talk or hypocrisy, doesn’t it? Criticize for-profit schools and then take their money?