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Inside the MLA

Read Accuracy in Academia’s inside account of the Modern Language Association in the latest issue of AIA’s monthly Campus Report newsletter.

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The Real Haters

“There is nothing that arid, overly specialized academicians—who usually attain tenure without ever writing a readable work of interest to…

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Solid Scholarship on Sex

“Similarly, in high academe, the philosophy of sex and love, not to mention the long history of social-science research on sexuality, from Kinsey to the present, occupies solid, reputable ground.”— Carlin Romano, professor of philosophy and humanities at Ursinus College and author of America the Philosophical (Alfred A. Knopf, 2012).

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College Confidential 2012

Academics in their own words, for better or, more frequently, for worse in the latest issue of Accuracy in Academia’s Campus Report newsletter.

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Alger Hiss Still Guilty

More than a half a century after Alger Hiss betrayed his country, some academics still proclaim his innocence.

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Agents of Inaccuracy

“Despite the fact that more than half of faculty members say on surveys that an important goal for undergraduate instruction is to ‘encourage students to become agents of social change,’ colleges don’t have much of an effect on student political participation.” —Canadian sociologist Neil Gross

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That’s Kind Of Huge

“One of the lone drawbacks of affirmative action is that mediocrity can become an expectation.”— Khadijah Davis is a sophomore in the School of Nursing and Health Studies at Georgetown University.

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Obama’s American Classroom

See why the Obama years resemble a classroom lecture in the latest issue of Accuracy in Academia’s monthly Campus Report newsletter.

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Not Ready For College

“Given the choice between losing their jobs or keeping the full 4 hours on instruction for students who enter the college with English as their second language and with significant lack of preparation for college level work, English faculty chose to act on behalf of their students and their colleagues have supported them”.—the Academic Senate of Queensborough Community College in Bayside, N. Y.

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Of Builders & Occupiers

Find out whether businessmen “didn’t build” America in the latest issue of Accuracy in Academia’s monthly Campus Report newsletter.