The issue of affirmative action may soon find itself again before the Supreme Court of the United States. Court watchers will remember that it was just recently (a little more than a year ago) that…
Articles By: Ethan Gaitz
Eric Holder’s Law Enforcement on Steroids
Controversies on American college campuses are becoming almost the norm now. And Eric Holder has inserted himself and the Obama White House right into the center of a debate regarding sexual assault on campus. Sexual…
College Football on Strike
The efforts of Northwestern University’s scholarship football players to unionize could have profound implications for the future of college education. According to the Associated Press, Northwestern University just filed a 60-page brief with the National…
This is a College Course?
Young people who want to spend their college years to undergoing radical intellectual transformations do so typically through the study of liberal arts. No other academic scheme is able to challenge the preconceived notions that…
Ball State Bonanza
Bureaucratic ineptitude is nothing new to the American public (as well as the readership of AIA). It becomes almost invariably more difficult for an agency or institution to function smoothly once it reaches a certain…
College Costs Exploding
Any sanguine prognosticators who may have predicted a decline in the average cost of attending college may need to rethink how they arrived at such an off-the mark conclusion. At least 50 American colleges and…
Hillary Clinton’s Extravagant University Speaking Engagements
Clintonians, despite not being able to cheer Hillary Clinton on as secretary of state, should still find themselves mollified by the sheer number of public appearances Clinton has made recently. Likely due in part to…
Yesterday, Today and ?
Finding academics and intellectuals who are critical of the current White House has almost amounted to trying to find a needle in a haystack. Yet, for those who have been looking for such a mythical…
What Makes For-Profit Colleges Different?
Convention has mandated that once a student completes his/her high school studies, one must enroll at a four-year college or university; to begin study at an ivory-tower institution of higher learning marks for many Americans…
Future of Conservative Education
As the 2014 midterm elections near, conservative Republicans have found themselves in a situation that demands more than a mere denunciation of President Obama’s policies. There has been no shortage of criticism from the GOP…