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Colleges and universities are promising graduates “green jobs” at the end of their education, secure in the knowledge that if they fail to materialize, schools won’t be liable for damages under Truth in Advertising laws.

Believe it or not, a Berkeley sociologist recently offered a surprisingly clear-eyed and coherent assessment of Communist China.

There is at least one academic who understands the roots of the current financial crisis in the United States. Maybe that is because, unlike most pedagogues, he came from the business world.

He was most known for being President Jimmy Carter’s head of the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) when it began the deregulation of the airline industry in 1977-78. He was my Economics professor at Cornell University in the late 1960’s.

One startling development obscured by partisan battles over union contracts in Wisconsin and New Jersey is the degree to which high-profile Democrats have also been going toe-to-toe with teachers unions, a key bloc in their political base.

Accuracy in Academia will host a complimentary dinner discussion regarding affordable college tuition rates with Richard Vedder, author of Going Broke by Degree: Why College Costs Too Much on April 7, 2011.

Expect the education community to be up in arms over attempts by House Republicans to scale back college grant programs, but don’t expect their charges to be all that accurate.

Rarely do pedagogues attack anything with the word liberal attached to it. Thus it is somewhat newsworthy when one does.

Colleges and universities pride themselves on producing erudite citizens. Nevertheless, by nearly available benchmark, they are failing in this regard, although they don’t seem to realize it.

In the May 2011 issue of The American Conservative, a Georgetown professor debates himself and both sides of the debate lose.

Beware of polls, particularly when they are done by universities, distributed through their PR offices and given and disseminated by the media.

The Al-Jazeera terror TV channel “forum” in Doha, Qatar, not only hosted a top leader of the Hamas terrorist group, but several American commentators and professors of journalism and political science.