Articles by Malcolm A. Kline

Hard-hitting reporting of higher education has been so abysmal for so long that when newspapers cut back on their coverage of it, readers seldom notice.

“More than half of those who come to my college are not prepared.”—

Robert Templin, president, Northern Virginia Community College, July 19, 2011, The Atlantic forum on The New Work Era.

“Maybe if our presidents had read The Iliad and The Odyssey, we wouldn’t be in Iraq.” John Sexton, president, New York University, Mike Morris, chairman and CEO, American Electric Power Company, Inc., July 19, 2011, The Atlantic forum on The New Work Era.

“Unfortunately, what we’re getting throughout America is kids who can’t do math with no speaking skills.”— Mike Morris, chairman and CEO, American Electric Power Company, Inc., July 19, 2011, The Atlantic forum on The New Work Era.

When George Washington University law professor John Banzhaff decided to sue Catholic University over its decision to bring back single-sex dorms, his lawsuit provoked a backlash against commentators who rather liked this return to tradition.

“Sociologists have identified an emerging new ethnic population of ‘unhyphenated Americans,’ those whites who claim an ‘American’ ancestry, or none at all.”— Brian K. Arbour, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Accuracy in Academia is proud to announce that veteran journalist Cliff Kincaid will speak at the AIA author’s night on July 20, 2011.

The putative conservative at The New York Times urges conservatives in Congress to accept a budget deal offered by President Obama and the Democrats by citing elite opinion. That should be a red flag that the offer probably is a “no brainer,” although not in the way the cheerleading columnist utilizes the word.

To some in academia, federal Title IX regulations that effectively limit sports opportunities in college for men who are inclined to pursue them in order to create athletic possibilities for women who could care less do not go far enough.

In an interview in The Chronicle Review, a CUNY English prof gives more detail on his background than most readers care to know, but about as much as his students  have come to expect.

Accuracy in Academia’s next author’s night will showcase a special report published by AIA’s sister organization—Accuracy in Media. “Headlines and Breadlines: Reaganomics and Obamanomics in the Media and in Reality” looks at how the New York Times and The Washington Post covered two epochal presidencies.