A college administrator at Norwich University makes a good point: administration jobs at colleges are all about dealing with regulations and paperwork.
Topic: academia
Bad News about Alternative Lifestyles
This year, a Catholic University sociologist published results of a study of children of same-sex parents that runs counter to much of the happy talk on the subject emanating from academia. “In the past two…
North Dakota Students Now Have the Right to an Attorney
Wait, so college campuses don’t allow students to have an attorney and other rights to due process? Apparently it was not, at least in North Dakota’s university system, until recently.
UPenn Students Silence Efforts to Address Biased Professors on Campus
Sounds like the words “freedom” and “free expression” are tossed around lightly, but students don’t know the true meaning of them when they go ahead and quash free speech. This time, students rejected addressing the…
When taxpayers subsidize ill-considered degree programs
As the John William Pope Center wrote: “Each year, UNC officials pitch new degree programs to the system’s Board of Governors. More often than not, the programs are approved, even though a casual observer—especially a…
Speaker Criticizes UCLA Administration and Fear of Microaggression
Way to go, Heather Mac Donald. As The College Fix reported, she blasted UCLA administrators for creating a culture of onerous bureaucracy and expenses, as well as coddling UCLA students with the fears around microaggression.
National Sexual Assault Survey called a Trigger by Students Refusing to take it
As The College Fix said: “This month, as part of Sexual Assault Awareness month, 28 universities across the country are asking students to anonymously share their knowledge of and experiences with sexual assault and misconduct…
Princeton Ethics Professor says ObamaCare should allow for Killing of Severely Disabled Infants
As The College Fix reported, professor Peter Singer made these inflammatory remarks in a radio interview: “Singer contended the health-care system under Obamacare should be more overt about rationing and that the country should acknowledge…
Roots of Revisionism
At Accuracy in Academia, we have long complained of academic historians who ignore primary sources in favor of secondary ones. What gets lost in that process from the former approach to the latter one is,…
Students Want Sexual Misconduct Policy on Class Syllabi
The student government at the University of Michigan voted to put sexual misconduct policy on class syllabi, regardless of class subject being taught.