When Aaron Jones attempted to respond to a misleading flyer distributed by the College Democrats at Morehead State University, he found himself hit with a response from a faculty member that looked just as deceptive as the original student group’s handout.
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Reed Irvine, R. I. P.
Reed Irvine started AIA in 1985 because he saw that too many professors were using classrooms the way that too many reporters used newsrooms—to influence events rather than provide actual accounts of the past and present.
Campus Attack on Western Civilization
The subsequent outcry that greeted news of this proposal was so vehement, and so vicious, that one would think the College had proposed replacing the Old Well with a statue of George W. Bush.
California Cartwheel
Diedra performed her cartwheel on the Tuesday before the Veterans Day holiday. She was then told that she was suspended the following day.
Colorado Cracks
Despite the protests of Colorado elites, the record of the Rocky Mountain state on academic freedom hardly falls in the “Let a hundred flowers bloom” category.
Academia Adrift
Those who think that critics of higher education seek to use classrooms for conservative training camps rather than ideological laboratories of the left should hear what economist Roger Meiners has to say.
CROSS-DRESSING DAY
At least one outraged mother pulled her children out of Carrier Mills-Stonefort Elementary School (kindergarten through 8th grade) after being informed about the cross-dressing day.
UCLA Unhinged
The announcement that George W. Bush won the 2004 presidential election was followed by more than simple distress among University of California Los Angeles students
AmaZinn’
A book review I wrote recently focused on a dissection of the work of historian Howard Zinn that appeared in the recently published Intellectual Morons by my predecessor at Accuracy in Academia, Dan Flynn. That review drew a sharp retort from one of Zinn’s many admirers in Academia.
Education Or Intimidation?
West Chester (Pa.) University junior Tony Maalouf says, “In the last two and a half months, I was discriminated against more on this campus for being a College Republican than I ever have in my whole life for being an Arab.”
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NEA Not Aging Gracefully
America’s largest teacher’s union is finally showing signs of antiquity and may be on the verge of irrelevancy.
Disruptive Innovation in Colorado
Colorado appears to be at the forefront of education innovation and integrating brick-and-mortar classroom instruction with online learning.
The Other MidEast Divide
“Increasingly, the Sunni-Shia divide is becoming more important in the Middle East than the Israeli-Arab conflict.”—Peter Hitchens, The American Spectator, September 2013.
Football: The Safest Sport?
Everything that you’ve heard about football is wrong.
The Great Legal Society
Law students might be more career ready than most collegiates but what good does that do the rest of us?
Simplistically Clever
“’Simplistic,’ one of those words always used by people who want to appear cleverer than they are.”—Peter Hitchens, The American Spectator, September 2013.
Violence Reconsidered Academically
An academic takes a look at the effects of violence that may be at odds with that of many of his peers.
Utopian Epic Fail
“The abiding belief that we can plant democracy anywhere, and that it will then flourish in harmony and love thereafter, is never cured by facts or upset by anomalies.”—Peter Hitchens, The American Spectator, September 2013.
Where Jobs Are Green
Apparently there are “green jobs” after all, or at least “green grants”—in universities.
How Academia Avoids Obamacare
Academics supported Obamacare even more enthusiastically than Congress did.