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The Precarious Lives of Politically Incorrect Adjuncts

A professor without tenure discovers that even the teaching of basic English is driven by political correctness.

Academic Freedom - What It Is, What It Isn't, and How to Tell the Difference

7.16.09 - By Donald Downs - Today's university is rife with competing claims about academic freedom. Although academic freedom is similar to the freedom of speech that all Americans enjoy, it has developed over time into a more specific guarantee for scholars and teachers.

Opening Up the Classroom

June 29, 2009 - This report, â€œOpening Up the Classroom: Greater Transparency through Better, More Accessible Course Information," by Jay Schalin, proposes a way to improve the transparency and accountability of colleges and universities.

African-American Studies--As They Should Be

June 10, 2009 - By John McWhorterÂ - An ethnic studies department should be a place of learning, not a place for settling old scores or undergoing a 12-step therapy program.

A literature professor discovers that his students exist in the fog of a post-literate world.

By Thomas Bertonneau
Editorâ€™s Note: This is the first in a three-part series (to be published on Fridays). By analyzing the responses of his Survey of Literature students on their exams, Thomas F. Bertonneau, who teaches at SUNY-Oswego, offers insight into where education is failing today. The first essay sets the stage

What, Me Read? Part II

By Thomas Bertonneau
Editorâ€™s Note: This is the first in a three-part series (to be published on Fridays). By analyzing the responses of his Survey of Literature students on their exams, Thomas F. Bertonneau, who teaches at SUNY-Oswego, offers insight into where education is failing today. The first essay sets the stage

What, Me Read? Part III

By Thomas Bertonneau
Editorâ€™s Note: This is the first in a three-part series (to be published on Fridays). By analyzing the responses of his Survey of Literature students on their exams, Thomas F. Bertonneau, who teaches at SUNY-Oswego, offers insight into where education is failing today. The first essay sets the stage

A is for Average, B is for Being There

By George Leef
Decades ago, college students who didnâ€™t learn much of the material might have been fortunate enough to get the â€œgentlemanâ€™s Câ€ and if they did, they heaved a sigh of relief. It used to be the case that students mostly got what they had earned based on their performance. Grades, most people assumed, were supposed to reflect how well each student learned the subject.

Disinviting William Ayers - A breach of academic freedom?

By George Leef
Last March, the University of Nebraska chose William Ayers as the keynote speaker for a conference to be held at the universityâ€™s College of Education in November. Yes, that William Ayers â€“ the former Weather Underground radical who, back in his student days, thought that some bombings of public buildings would help foment leftist revolution and bring down our oppressive government.

The

By Jay Schalin
â€œSocial justice,â€ in its broadest definition, is the extension of the principles of â€œjusticeâ€ into every aspect of human existence. Depending on its implementation, such an idea could possibly have merit. But in all of its various American implementations and offshoots in America today, it is nothing more than a justification for Marxist and radical-left designs.

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