Articles by Malcolm A. Kline

An academic veteran is concerned with the degree to which student debt affects academic performance. Now if only university VIPs would notice the extent to which college costs lead to student debt.

One Catholic university has cancelled a speaker who is pro-choice on abortion.

What colleges do to donors takes “biting the hand that feeds you” to a whole new level of tetanus.

Academia, in the person of the formidable John K. Wilson, has found our 100 arguments against tenure wanting, to put it mildly.

We usually write about bad news in academia, of which there is no shortage. Nevertheless, in keeping with the spirit of the era, we must make note of signs of hope and change.

Those religious institutions which were told that the national health care law passed by Congress and signed by the president would not force them to comply with parts of the statute that conflict with their religion may have been misinformed.

At a time when most Americans are beyond belt-tightening in trying to trim expenses, some colleges and universities are still having a hard time shedding that administrative bloat.

Academics are very proud of their scholarly research. Maybe they shouldn’t be.

Here’s the rest of our arguments for tenure, so far this year.

When White House waived No Child Left Behind standards in order to give grants to states and localities with no strings attached, the Obama Administration’s Department of Education may have actually replaced the string with rope.

“Congress has the power to regulate commerce; but does it, as here, have the power to create commerce—i.e., to force individuals to engage in interstate commerce by purchasing health care insurance from private providers?”— Edward J. Erler, Professor of Political Science, California State University, San Bernardino, Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar on May 24, 2011, in Dallas, Texas.

“With all this stuff about state standards, I just assumed that every school had a curricula handed down from the state.”—Derek Neal, economist, University of Chicago, at Brookings Institution conference on September 27, 2011.