Articles by Malcolm A. Kline

At a time when spending in higher education is viewed with increasing suspicion, Hamilton College is trying a new stratagem to justify it.

In trying to paint a picture of burgeoning class conflicts on American campuses, academics and their off-campus enablers promise evidence but mostly offer atmospherics.

Academic humor is usually an oxymoronic term but every now and then you find an exception to the rule. Here’s one from Georgetown professor George Viksnins.

Even when the goal seems worthwhile, federal spending on education is counterproductive.

Some of the biggest names in Hollywood are banding together to fight perceived funding cuts in arts education in public schools.

When a University of Rochester professor actually attempted to put the controversy between talk-show host Rush Limbaugh and Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke into perspective, he was publicly smacked down by his university president.

“Is Western Civilization on the road to its own funeral because of the birth dearth?”—Veteran journalist Wes Vernon in a column for the Fitzgerald-Griffen Foundation

“Welcome back from spring break students. Can’t believe we’re on the downhill slide to graduation!”—tweet from the UVA School of Education.

As expected, the academic establishment is pushing back at the Catholic bishops for protesting the Obama Administration’s regulation that would require religious institutions to provide sterilization, abortifacients and contraceptives free of charge.

Although Republicans even excoriated him for saying so, when former U. S. Senator Rick Santorum, R-PA, claimed that college is not for everyone, he was echoing sentiments expressed even by veteran academics.

A college professor offered the type of big-picture analysis we used to expect from academics but rarely get anymore.

“By the way, government subsidies have impacted upon rising tuition costs,” Vice President Joe Biden admitted last month at Florida State University.