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Expensive Free Tuition in NC
North Carolina students looking for a free ride need only to gain acceptance at the state’s selective governor’s school.
Earth Daydreams, Textbook Fantasies
To get an idea of just how factually inaccurate classroom lectures can be, just take a look at the books that accompany them.
College Students Find Religion
A growing number of students are responding to the increasingly secular, even pagan, nature of most colleges and universities by a taking a walk, to a more religious institution of higher learning.
What the [heck] class do you watch anti-war music videos in?
Critics of higher education often write about leftist bias in the classroom, barely literate students who somehow gain admission, dumbing down of course content, and academically disengaged students. Sometimes, however, those problems write themselves.
Crime of Thought at LeMoyne
The Thought Police have made an arrest at Le Moyne College. According to this article, Syracuse college student Scott McConnell, has been expelled from Le Moyne College over an essay he received an A- on. All because he touted a very untrendy view: corporal punishment in schools.
Community College: Bias at the Grassroots
Community colleges can be every bit as biased to the left as their Ivy League and state university counterparts.
The Big Chill
Two veteran professors from both coasts gave Campus Report radio listeners an idea of the chill on free speech of politically correct norms in academia particularly on issues relating in any way to race.
Wrestling with Title IX
For more than 30 years, Title IX of the Education Amendments has been heralded as the reason for the increase in the number of women’s athletic programs across the country and providing opportunities for women like Mia Hamm to compete on the college level.
Little Churchills
Americans were understandably upset to learn that University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill compared the victims who died in the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center to “Little Eichmans,” likening them to the infamous Nazi war criminal. These same Americans should know that there are a platoon of “Little Churchills” in colleges and universities throughout the United States.
Recent Articles
College Democrats as Professors
8 out of 10 College Professors Donate To Democrats
Is Food Over-Regulated?
According to Walter Olson a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Constitutional Studies, the government should be conducting itself with a simple motto “Protect individual rights, curb force and fraud, and butt out.”
ObamaCare Slams the Young
College students may support the Obama Administration and Obamacare but they find it a poison pill, metaphorically.
Bane of Do-Gooders
The Responsibility To Protect, or R2P policies of the UN and, for that matter, the Obama Administration, are rather vague, economist Christopher Coyne argues in his book Doing Bad By Doing Good.
Obamacare Implosion Not Academic
The professoriate, as seen through the eyes of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), thinks that Obamacare is wildly popular despite GOP efforts to make it unpopular.
Revising Stalinist Genocide Up
Recently, an associate professor at Cornell took umbrage at our chiding her for making one reference to Stalin’s death count in an article on the Soviet dictator that seemed to downplay his casualties.
Chartering Special Education
The state of New York discovered that special needs students are not enrolling in charter schools as much as they are in public schools, and immediately thought that the charter schools were to blame.
Obamacare Bait & Switch
If you are rushing to get some of the swag that accompanies Obamacare, don’t blink: You might miss it.
Conservative Dissent on MOOCs
What started out as a classic left-right confrontation is evolving into an interesting split.
Corrosion of Ivory Tower
The view of academia from outside the gates may be bleak, but from inside, it’s much worse.
Book Review
Book Review: Is ‘The Dying Citizen’ a Prediction of America’s Future?
America’s ongoing and seemingly-constant crises have left Americans scrambling to find a sense of normalcy and safety. Just in time, to cut through the chaotic bombardment of conflicting messages and opinions while providing a voice…
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The Origins of Political Correctness
Emerson College: ‘Homosexual’ is Offensive to Gays so Stop Using It
Self-Identifying Marxist Professors Outnumber Conservatives as College Professors
Ayn Rand Reconsidered
Black Lives Matter Lists “White Supremacy, Patriarchy, Capitalism” Among Reasons for Orlando Attack
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