Higher Education
Lefty Journo Prof Decries Profit Motive In 'Killing' of Seattle P-I
January 10th, 2009 4:25 PM
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer could be going out of business. And the culprit is . . . capitalism. That's Pilgrim's Complaint. Tim Pilgrim, that is. The professor of journalism at Western Washington University was quoted today in the P-I's article about its own pending demise. The P-I's parent company, the Hearst Corp., has put the paper up for sale, and prospects aren't good for finding a…
Rocky Mountain News Reports Tuition Increases - Ignores Spending
December 23rd, 2008 3:17 AM
So, once again, students in the Colorado university system and their parents will be asked to pay more for tuition. The Rocky slips this university talking point into its report: "Low state funding has driven heavy tuition increases every year since the beginning of the decade."
Of course, how the money's being spent escapes all attention. Good luck figuring out how much it takes to educate a 4…
Sociology Prof's Solution To Detroit Meltdown: Unionize Toyota
December 6th, 2008 7:41 PM
Only a professor, preferably a sociology professor, one with way too much time on his hands, could have come up with this one. His solution to the Detroit crisis that has the Big Three automakers on the brink of bye-bye? Unionize their foreign competitors manufacturing in the USA!Now why didn't we think of that? Because we're not Jonathan Cutler, associate professor of sociology at Wesleyan…
My Day On Campus: No 'Out' Republicans Among Budding Media Professiona
December 4th, 2008 3:22 PM
The future of a media dominated by left-leaning professionals seems assured. At least, it is if my experience addressing an Ithaca College course today is any indication. Professor Wenmouth Williams, Jr. kindly invited me in to address two sections of his course on media and politics at Ithaca College's Park School of Communications.Prof. Williams—who identified himself as a registered Dem—…
Obama's Change.gov Site Undergoes Severe Scrubbing; $40/Hr. College Se
November 9th, 2008 11:42 AM
Well, this is change you can really see. Yesterday, verbiage at the "Service" Section of Barack Obama's Change.gov site (specifically the URL "http://change.gov/agenda/service/") served as source material for yesterday's post (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog) entitled "Obama’s 'Service in College' Program at Change.gov Promises $40 an Hour." The page was entitled "Barack Obama and Joe Biden's Plan…
Obama's 'Service in College' Program at Change.gov Promises $40 an Hou
November 8th, 2008 10:29 AM
Talk about "change." The latest version of president-elect Barack Obama's ever-evolving ideas for "community service" promises to pass out quite a bit of it to America's college students. The "America Serves" (link is to Google cache) and "Service" sections of Team Obama's Change.gov site have, uh, changed quite a bit over the past day or so after many, including Kerry Picket of Newsbusters,…
Media Ignores Cornell Staffer & Dean Oppressing Student's Free Speech
October 25th, 2008 6:21 AM
Students that belong to a pro-life campus group called Cornell Coalition for Life (CCFL) spent weeks and hundreds of dollars organizing a pro-life display to be featured on the Cornell University Engineering Campus in Ithaca, New York. This was no guerilla campaign, either, because the CCFL applied for and received permission for its display. Yet, scarcely an hour had passed before an associate…
Matthews Interviews Daughter, Doesn't Tell Viewers; She Disses Tax Cut
September 30th, 2008 7:19 AM
The news comes from Media Bistro's DC Fishbowl, with a twist that the post overlooked: On Friday's "Hardball," Chris Matthews interviewed a number of student members of the group Concerned Youth of America. One of those students -- Caroline -- is his daughter, a student at the University of Pennsylvania. Did Matthews disclose that fact as he interviewed her? Not so much. One tipster tells…
Biden Versus the 'Bucket of Fluff
September 16th, 2008 7:23 AM
The woman introducing Joe Biden to a Michigan crowd yesterday called Sarah Palin a "bucket of fluff." Biden then told the crowd that Barack Obama is too smart and too well-educated to live in a Republican neighborhood. Now that the Dems have put Obama's smarts and education on the table, will the MSM demand Obama finally release his Columbia transcript? Of all the people the Dems might have…
CNN’s Sanchez Features Student Who Mouths Obama Race Point by Stepha
September 15th, 2008 2:22 PM
CNN anchor Rich Sanchez, as part of his continuing interviews of first-time young voters, featured a Georgia Tech student on Monday’s American Morning who made a liberal statement on race that was nearly identical to one made by George Stephanopoulos over a year ago. Ben Porter, who was identified on-screen as an Obama supporter, stated that "[t]he people that can't accept a black man in the…
George Clooney's Father, Nick Clooney, to Join American University Sta
August 22nd, 2008 9:21 PM
Democrats love their celebrities, and academia, well, they'll settle for celebrities' fathers. Cinncinatti.com's John Kiesewetter reports that Nick Clooney, George's dad, will be the "distinguished journalist in residence" at the American University in Washington D.C.If George Clooney's dad, Nick Clooney, can be a professor of journalism, maybe I gave George's foreign policy chops short shrift.
Update: Still No Movement on Ayers-Obama Annenberg Papers
August 21st, 2008 2:27 PM
In my post on Tuesday, I wrote about Stanley Kurtz's efforts to access the Annenberg Challenge files housed at the University of Illinois-Chicago. These files documented an educational initiative started by Bill Ayers and chaired by Barack Obama.At that point, only AP writer Pete Yost had written anything about the story. Additionally, U of I rep Bill Burton issued a press release. Since that…
University Denies Access to Obama-Ayers Documents
August 20th, 2008 12:25 AM
When will the University of Illinois (Chicago) release the Annenberg Challenge documents? This is the question Stanley Kurtz asked in his column yesterday at NRO. Since then, the call has been taken up by various conservative blogs and radio shows. Today, U of I News Bureau Director, Bill Burton, issued a press release.The University Library supports the teaching, research, and service missions…
Near Illiteracy of MI's Not College-Bound Ignored in AP Report on ACT
August 14th, 2008 4:35 PM
You would think that someone working for the self-described "Essential Global News Network" known as the Associated Press as an Education Writer might go beyond using the Copy and Paste commands in reporting on national college entrance exam test scores. From all appearances, you would be wrong. AP Education Writer Justin Pope's report on the 2008 ACT exam results appears to contain nothing that…