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.
Faculty Lounge

Million-Dollar Man

 

If the CEO of any business became a millionaire overnight by a vote of the board, you would have heard about it by now. When a college president achieves this feat, though, it gets covered by—the college newspaper.

Faculty Lounge

Too Cool For School

Those who would herd millions of Americans into college never wonder if they might be better off somewhere else. Perhaps they should.

News

CINO Schools Lose Foothold

One Catholic college made the U. S. News & World Report lists of “most popular” among applicants and “most loved” by alumni and it is none of the ones the media like to cover—those institutions that could be called Catholic in Name Only (CINO).

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Ivory Tower Economics

Academic economists find that they can make whatever prognostications they like since they don’t have to live with the results.

Current Wisdom

Just Send Money

“We like legislation with broad expectations in which the curriculum is left to faculty to develop.” –

Paula Compton, Associate Vice Chancellor, Ohio Board of Regents at the Center for American Progress. Ohio has “50 faculty panels which write learning outcomes the university is trying to achieve.”

Faculty Lounge

Education Dollars, Well Spent?

The president’s favorite think tank continues to press for more federal funding for public schools, even while acknowledging recent failures of such subsidies.

News

Unbearable Whiteness of Being

Those who ponder where the class struggle begins in the country with the most movement between classes, up and down, need wonder no more: All they have to do is look at the content of composition courses.

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Shariah Schools

This body of legal beliefs is already taking hold in some surprising places, namely American courts and schools..

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Are Real Economists Bears?

Despite the optimism of the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) about the job market, real data indicate that college graduates will encounter few jobs when they seek employment.