Posted on October 20, 2009 by Mary Grabar
I will not let you go out to play when your room is so dirty, I will not tolerate you talking back to me, young man, …. oops, no, it’s not Daddy, but our Commander-in-Chief and his most-repeated phrase according to a study by the Associated Press. In one of our great institutions of higher [...]
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Posted on October 20, 2009 by Mary Grabar
Inside Higher Ed reports that such factors as test scores, grades, and class rank played a less significant role in college admissions in 2008 than they did in 2007. NACAC (National Association for College Admissions Counseling), an organization incapable (or unwilling to) of putting together a coherent report, as I concluded in my own articles [...]
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Posted on October 19, 2009 by Mary Grabar
Doesn’t sound like a book I’d recommend. This retired librarian of 32 years recommends this. Too much blood-letting and betrayal have led to cynicism. One of the comments in this post about goths displays a more profound understanding of the type of attitude such reading (and viewing) encourages. As I’ve written before, librarians have [...]
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Posted on October 17, 2009 by Mary Grabar
Even at the University of Chicago, a place known for serious study as far back as the 1990s, long after the Ivys had succumbed to the intellectual vacuity of political correctness.
Chicago Tribune story via Pamela Geller.
History reminder: The universities of Germany were hothouses of Anti-Semitism in the 1930s.
Posted on October 17, 2009 by Mary Grabar
Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media has managed to get hip-hop professor commie Marc Lamont Hill off Fox News. I winced every time I heard O’Reilly call Hill “professor” or “doctor.” You can read about “Professor” Hill’s background and “scholarship” at the AIM website www.aim.org.
An update and more analysis http://usasurvival.org/listmanager/asinews101809.html
Posted on October 17, 2009 by Mary Grabar
More moral equivalency by CNN in reporting on the Glenn Beck segment that exposed White House Communications Director Anita Dunn’s commencement speech for St. Andrews Episcopal School at the National Cathedral; there she praised Mao Tse-Tung and Mother Theresa as her “heroes.” The CNN article uses Media Matters as a source to say that Republicans [...]
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Posted on October 17, 2009 by Mary Grabar
Inside Higher Ed reports Stimulus for Humanities Job Market. A newly minted Ph.D. can earn a nice $50,000 a year salary, with a $5,000 research stipend, health insurance, and moving expenses—for teaching 3 classes all year. Such an award of course will vaunt the new Ph.D. into the coveted position of tenure—which for the politically [...]
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Posted on October 17, 2009 by Mary Grabar
Not less than a month after ACTA gave the University of Georgia a “B” for maintaining a core curriculum, the Board of Regents has announced plans to water down it down. As I noted in my Pajamas Media column, today’s teachers can turn English 101 into an indoctrination session (and most do to a certain [...]
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