“Te Atrocity” Of Schools
by Smitty Insty rounds up some more blowback over Paul Krugman, who dropped an upper decker at the NYT yesterday. Insty includes email from an anonymous academic: But there’s also the invention of a “we were all united and then Bush ruined it” idea. This is nonsense. The professional and academic left immediately started with “the […]
‘The Chance to Make a Difference’ or the Chance to Make $165,000 a Year?
Why do kids go to law school? Harold Krent, dean and professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law, said large law firms hire 50 percent fewer graduates than four years ago. That makes a huge difference for students who hope to a get a “$165,000 payday,” he said. But, Krent said . . . many students […]
Who Is Richard Kramer? Director of ‘Mental Health Professionals’ Group Admits His Own Attraction to Minors
Controversy has erupted over a Baltimore conference this week organized by B4UAct.org, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization described by the Daily Caller as “a group of pro-pedophile mental health professionals and sympathetic activists.” The Aug. 17 conference was aimed at de-stigmatizing pedophila and especially at removing pedophilia from the list of mental disorders in the American Psychiatric Association’s diagnostic manual. There […]
‘Awfully Nice For The Professors Who Don’t Have To Grade’
by Smitty Althouse points to Western Governor’s University, where there is a notion of hiring adjuncts to do the grading. Should we feel for the adjuncts who have a job consisting of the part of the job that the regular professors are freed from? The photo at the link depicts “Emily Child, an evaluator at […]
Your Tax Dollars at Work
The Department of Education has enlisted Sponge Bob Squarepants and Dora the Explorer to brainwash kids about global warming. Soylent Green is experiencing Government-Induced Tourette’s Syndrome.
Higher Education Bubble, IYKWIMAITYD
If Glenn Reynolds hasn’t linked this yet, it’s only a matter of time: As the cost of college skyrockets, and students and recent graduates get buried under “piles of student debt and a job-scarce, lackluster economy,” more and more of them are turning to “sugar daddies,” says Amanda Fairbanks at The Huffington Post. Sites like […]
My Son-in-Law’s Law School in the News
Readers will recall Martin — a/k/a, the Argentine Romeo — who married my daughter last year. He will attend University of Baltimore Law School this fall and, via Instapundit, we have the news that the UBLS dean just resigned: University of Baltimore School of Law Dean Phillip J. Closius resigned today as a result of […]
Civil Rights and ‘Elevator Eyes’
“Elevator Eyes: When someone looks another person up and down, giving their eyes the resemblance of elevators.” — Urban Dictionary Michael Barone explains that the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights sent a 19-page letter to colleges and universities in April: The OCR letter includes a requirement that universities adopt a “preponderance of the […]
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