The fall of communism and socialism have “robbed” the “post-Sovietized world,” Noemi Marin of Florida Atlantic University suggested at this year’s Modern Language Association (MLA) conference in Vancouver, Canada. After the fall of the Berlin…
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Quick Hits: Community College Grad Rates
Via Columbia University’s Community College Research Center: “According to a recent study by the National Student Clearinghouse, 15 percent of students who started at two-year institutions in 2006 completed a degree at a four-year institution…
41% of North Carolina Community College Students Graduate in 6 Years
This is not a lie, but a real statistic. That is barely 4 in 10 community college students earning a two-year associate’s degree in 6 years. That isn’t good enough. The worst part is that…
Obama’s “Free” Community College Plan Prolongs High School
A really good take from The Federalist: “Grade inflation and enrollment inflation caused by converting community college to an entitlement will produce a high school graduating cohort that is ill-equipped for college work and weighed…
VIDEO: #BlackLivesMatter Fizzles at the MLA
The Black Lives Matter protest movement, found its way to the Modern Language Association (MLA) convention in Vancouver, but failed to attract much support from the left wing attendees. Despite an estimated 7,000 left-wing professors…
NAFTA Encourages Violence in Mexico, MLA Panel Alleges
The North American Free Trade Agreement. NAFTA, between Canada, U.S. and Mexico, signed by President Clinton encourages graphic posts of murders of Mexicans by cartels and corrupt officials, panelists on a panel at the Modern…
Feminists, Gays and Crip[ple] Theory
In one of the few crowded roundtable discussions at the recent MLA conference in Vancouver, which was far from a discussion, four female professors went over their papers on feminist, queer and disability theory (the…
American Slavery + Environmentalism + Cyberspace?
“Atlantic Empiricisms” was the name of a panel discussion at the 2015 Modern Language Association convention in Vancouver, Canada, and it was as bare as the title suggested. Britt Rusert, who teaches English at the…
CIA Conspiracy Theorist at the MLA
During the question and answer portion of one of the many panels at the 2015 Modern Language Association convention in Vancouver, Canada, one professor claimed he was being politically persecuted. David Anshen, who works at…
Mark Twain, the Colonist?
Mark Twain falsely portrayed Hawaiians as behind the times, one professor concluded at the 2015 Modern Language Association convention in Vancouver, Canada. Professor Molly Ball [pictured second from the left], an instructor at UC-Davis focusing on…