Hillary Clinton recently unveiled her higher education plan to reduce college student loan debt. As the Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) points out, Hillary’s plan, called the “New College Compact,” involves: States creating grants to…
Topic: Accuracy in Academia
College Board’s Biased Liberal Tests may have an Alternative
As WORLD reported, the College Board’s Advanced Placement exams are liberal and heavily biased: The College Board, the massive nonprofit organization responsible for the Advanced Placement Exam as well as the SAT and PSAT tests,…
University of Maryland Researcher: Ban the Southern Belle
A research associate at the University of Maryland said that we should ban the “Southern belle” and “remove the Southern belle from her inglorious perch.”
Wisconsin Professor, who Compared Scott Walker to Hitler, Teaches a Class on Scholar Activism
As the College Fix reported: Sara Goldrick-Rab, a sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, caused a firestorm last month when she publicly compared her governor, Republican Scott Walker, to Adolf Hitler in a tweet. She…
Cheating Website Ashley Madison Hack Revealed 75,000 University Email Addresses on Site
The Ashley Madison website, dedicated to conducting extramarital affairs, has a lot of university-related e-mail addresses, as the College Fix reported: Almost 75,000 accounts to the adulterous dating site Ashley Madison were registered with .edu emails, more…
Academic Privilege By the Numbers
The nation and the Republican Party may or may not need ‘The Donald’ but a cursory look at what statistics we can extract from academia today suggests that the academic world needs somebody like him….
Stealing from Wal-Mart isn’t a Crime, says College Administrator
The Director of Community Relations at the University of Wisconsin-Madison made this claim, which is ridiculous when you think of the rule of law.
University of Toledo Adopts Free Speech Policy after Censoring Protesters
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) reported this victory for free speech at the University of Toledo.
Education Wonk Changes His Mind on Arne Duncan
The Thomas B. Fordham Institute’s Michael Petrilli recently wrote an apologetic op-ed for Fordham’s e-mail newsletter entitled “The new ESEA will be ‘loose-loose’ because Arne Duncan went overboard with ‘tight-tight’.” A champion for Common Core,…
Western Illinois University Now Offers a Minor in… Queer Studies
We echo the same sentiment as the College Fix: Just what the higher education bubble needs, more “queer studies.” Western Illinois University announced Monday the new minor, calling it a recruitment tool and a way to…