Articles by Malcolm A. Kline

Malcolm A. Kline is the Executive Director of Accuracy in Academia. If you would like to comment on this article, e-mail contact@academia.org.
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Hamilton College Numbers Game

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

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Class Conflict: An Academic Question

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.

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Academic Humor for Real

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.

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STEMming Education Spending

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

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Moral Support for Arts

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

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Academia’s Judgment to Rush

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.

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Back to Downhill Slide

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

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Academia v. Catholicism

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.

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Surprising Agreement: Santorum & Academics

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.

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Welcome Academic Perspective

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