Lisa D. Cook, a Michigan State economist who served on President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors (CEA), took sharp aim at her old boss’s successor in an appearance at the Center for American Progress (CAP)…
Topic: Michigan State University
AEI Fellow, and Michigan Professor, Issues Complaint over All-Women Lounge
Interesting…a female-only lounge at Michigan State University? A University of Michigan professor has filed a formal complaint against Michigan State University, saying a female-only study lounge is discriminatory toward men. The professor, Mark Perry, is an…
Michigan State University Police Adds Anti-Bias Unit
This isn’t a joke, but apparently there is an anti-bias unit for the Michigan State University police force. Michigan State University (MSU) established a new branch of its police force on Tuesday tasked with the…
Getting to Know Goethe
Occasionally you can actually learn about classic authors at the Modern Language Association (MLA). Attended by thousands of English professors from around the world, too often the MLA emphasizes the “Modern” part of their acronym…
AIA Author’s Night with Dr. William B. Allen, Former U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner
Check out our last Author’s Night for 2015 with Dr. William B. Allen.
The American Identity Crisis
Accuracy in Academia’s next author’s night speaker, the former head of the U. S. Civil Rights Commission, sees a danger in America’s emphasis on diversity. “To be sure, we are wonderfully diverse—in race, gender, sexual…
Is America a Nation of Immigrants?
Generations of students have been taught that we are a nation of immigrants but inquiring minds beg to differ. Well, actually, they don’t beg. “What we have never been is a nation of immigrants,” veteran…
Civics, but for Grown-Ups
Some professors are more rooted in reality than others. Unfortunately, they tend to be retired. “President Lincoln called on every mother to whisper words of liberty to every listening babe,” William B. Allen, a professor…