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Title IX Expansions Bethany Stotts, November 20, 2009 During a November 10 press call on “Women Scientists and American Competitiveness,” speakers suggested that Title IX should be used to focus on “educational equity” and not just athletic equity. One speaker stressed, in particular, the importance of reaching out to federal agencies such as the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes for Health (NIH), the Department of Defense (DOD), and the Department of Energy (DOE) for additional grant money. (Predoctoral women received 63% of the NIH’s awards in 2007, but only 25% of “competitive faculty grants” that same year, reports...

Taxation: Compulsive Failure Sarah Carlsruh, November 2, 2009 Leslie Carbone spoke on October 15th at Accuracy in Academia’s Author’s Night on her book Slaying Leviathan: The Moral Case for Tax Reform. Her book, she began, discusses “how the federal government is uncritically, if not compulsively, making things worse through its wealth-spreading fiscal policies.” Referring to the Constitution, Carbone stated that the main purpose of a government is to ensure peoples’ rights and that progressive taxation—taking a person’s money “simply because they have acquired more than another”—violates those rights. Such policy, she said, is an “affront to justice.” Her book outlined...

No Accuracy for Rosa Bethany Stotts, October 30, 2009 Earlier this week Accuracy in Academia called out Campus Progress associate editor and blogger Erin Rosa for attempting to characterize the contributors to CampusReform, a social network site designed by the Leadership Institute, as conservative bullies. Several hours later Rosa responded to our critique, writing that “Recent reporting by Campus Progress on a new conservative social networking website has apparently stuck in the craw of another right-leaning group dedicated to exposing ‘political bias’ in education.” “In fact, Accuracy In Academia—a sister organization to Accuracy In Media, a longstanding nonprofit that specializes...

Was it a spy, or would-be spy, in that SUV? Despite CIA mementos and other evidence, Roland Carnaby's life remains an enigma

AIA at CPAC by: Malcolm A. Kline, February 07, 2008 Accuracy in Academia will share a booth with its sister organization Accuracy in Media at the Conservative Political Action Conference. If you are in the neighborhood, please visit us. We will be there for the entire conference in the Exhibit Hall from February 7-9, 2008. At 5:00 PM on Feb. 7 in the Empire Room of the Omni Shoreham in Washington, D. C.—the site of the conference—AIM will bestow its Reed Irvine award for investigative journalism on Dr. Lee Edwards....

The administrator of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration was named chief executive of the Aerospace Industries Association on Tuesday, the top lobbying group for aerospace manufacturers. Marion Blakey's five-year term at FAA ends on Sept. 13. She will remain with the agency until that time, a spokeswoman said. Blakey will succeed John Douglass, who has led the trade organization since 1998. Blakey's successor at FAA has not been named. AIA members include Boeing Co., General Electric Co., United Technologies Corp, Northrop Grumman Corp., BAE Systems PLC and Lockheed Martin.

Does The Internet Lean Left? by: Elliott Bachus and Matt Hadro, August 15, 2007 High-profile pundits such as the Fox News Channel’s ubiquitous Dick Morris have alleged that the left has taken over the internet and enjoys an advantage there similar to the edge that conservatives have in talk radio. These observers usually offer no evidence to support this claim beyond the observation that there is more feedback on the liberal sites. At least one wag has posited that liberals can provide such input because they are unencumbered by full-time employment. Certain statistics drawn from internet search engines just might...

Al Gore's speech Saturday at the American Institute of Architects convention was closed to the media, but you can read about it in today's Express-News on Page 1B. How we cracked the former vice president's iron curtain is a mildly entertaining story, but more on that later. The why we crashed the speech is more important. Here is Express-News Editor Robert Rivard's reasoning in asking the paper's environmental reporter, Anton Caputo, to find a way to infiltrate the AIA confab: "Al Gore and his crusade to raise awareness about global warming and climate change are issues of great public interest,...

Clemson Board Member Les McCraw of Greenville (“Tension Inevitable at Great Universities” August 30) is to be congratulated for entering the debate now raging over the freshman campus-wide reading, “Truth and Beauty.” The content of education is important and board members should be paying attention to it. McCraw’s approach to the controversy comes in the form of a response to Professor J. David Woodard’s article (Clemson reading assignment offers no moral standard, August 25). Alas, Mr. McCraw’s contribution to the debate does not do much to help us appreciate “Truth and Beauty” but only tells us why Woodard’s comments should...

Knight Moves University officials continue to demonstrate hostility towards Catholicism that borders on persecution. We have posted stories on the failure of college administrators to take action when student newspapers publish sacrilegious cartoons. Their declarations of support for freedom of the press would be more believable if they took the same approach towards sketches that offend Islamic and Gay Rights groups. Add to the mix the University of Wisconsin’s attempt to ban the Knights of Columbus. The Catholic fraternity is already invisible enough on cutting-edge campuses loosely affiliated with the Church, such as Georgetown’s. “Although the Knights have been a...

Public schools are spending so much time on gay rights issues that about the only way left for reformers to bring Algebra back to classrooms would be to set up algebraic word problems involving cast members of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. “Just this week, police arrested a middle-school drama teacher in Waltham, Massachusetts for allegedly staging an elaborate production designed to molest male teens by offering them massages from prostitutes, then blindfolding them, donning a wig, and pretending to be the female masseuse,” author Dan Flynn notes on his web site. “On August 10, police arrested another middle-school...

In a recent discussion hosted at the Heritage Foundation, four authorities shared their thoughts and research on the current status and future of Communism today, offering a different take than the one most college students are likely to get in Cold War studies courses. “Who knows that the Soviet Union murdered twenty million people, and the Chinese murdered fifty million through various massacres, trials, and other acts under Communism?” Lee Edwards, Chairman of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation said. “Who knows the Communism plague has exacted a death toll surpassing that of all the wars of the 20th century...

Maybe one of the reasons that we have never-ending battles over academic freedom is that many academics seem to define it differently. “Academic freedom means that if I think that there may be an intellectual payoff to be had by turning an academic lens on material others consider trivial — golf tees, gourmet coffee, lingerie ads, convenience stores, street names, whatever — I should get a chance to try,” veteran professor Stanley Fish recently wrote in The New York Times. “If I manage to demonstrate to my peers and students that studying this material yields insights into matters of general...

This past Wednesday, when I attended Students for Saving Social Security’s event on Social Security reform with roughly 300 other young people, I was overcome by an unusual Washington, D.C. emotion—hope. Having only lived in our nation’s capital for about a year, I have not yet succumbed to the total disillusionment and cynicism of many people, but it has certainly affected my optimistic tendencies. But in contradiction to my sometimes-attitude that nothing in this city ever gets done, let alone gets done right, I found myself believing something could be changed. Social Security was considered for decades to be the...

Though it has been a long 53 years since former President Harry S. Truman was in office, he was the hot topic of conversation at The Hudson Institute on Monday, July 17, where a panel discussed his legacy and influence on current policies. Truman’s defense-laden foreign policy has recently been compared to President George W. Bush’s tactics for the War on Terror; an association that was a major point of discussion for the three members of the panel. While the speakers all had their own specific opinions of the Bush-Truman comparison, they all praised Truman’s policies while he was in...

High school civics courses and even college-level political science classes on the separation of powers can sometimes differ radically from the actual practice. In a time when corruption runs rampant throughout Congress, and the legislative branch consistently succumbs to the executive branch’s agenda, change within the government is necessary, say Thomas Mann and Norman J. Ornstein, co-authors of The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track. Both Mann and Ornstein spoke about their book at the American Enterprise Institute on Wednesday, July 12 as part of a panel discussion with former Speakers...

A widely-publicized attack on supporters of Israel by two leading academics commits a fair number of inaccuracies not the least of which is their characterization of controversies surrounding the Israel Lobby as they manifest themselves on American campuses. “In September 2002, for example, Martin Kramer and Daniel Pipes, two passionately pro-Israel neoconservatives, established a website (Campus Watch) that posted dossiers on suspect academics and encouraged students to report comments or behavior that might be considered hostile to Israel,” John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt wrote in a recent report which also appeared in abbreviated form in the London Review of Books....

Confronting Academic Liberalism by: Julia A. Seymour, June 16, 2006 One sued her university, another was caricatured in her college newspaper, and the third stood up against school administration and would not back down. Conservative student activists are no longer anomalies, rare individuals who stand up to fight against liberalism on their campuses. The Eagle Forum Summit not only drew student activists, it featured several student speakers who have been waging battles for conservatism in Georgia, Virginia and Utah. Ruth Malhotra spoke first about her experiences at Georgia Tech which included being singled out in class and being threatened with...

At Boston College, David Hollenbach, S. J., remains a Big Man on Campus even after his unsuccessful effort to block the awarding of an honorary degree to the Secretary of State, but the family that endowed his chair is now saying what protesters put on placards during Condoleeza Rice’s speech: Not in my name. “Well, the commencement was today, and too bad the Flatley Professor [David Hollenbach, S.J.] did not also quit,” Dan Flatley wrote to us on Monday. “If he had any integrity he would, and you can quote me on that.” “Let the public know that the Flatley...

The Da Vinci Code, a New York Times Bestseller since it was published in 2003, is used in a class at Bowdoin College called “The Portrait of the Marys,” which emphasizes Mary Magdalene over Mary the Mother of God. If the movie flops at the box office, as current trends indicate it might, the film could become required college viewing as well. On the 17th of May, the month in which the Catholic Church celebrates Mary, the Virgin mother of Christ, the newly formed Interfaith Coalition Against The Da Vinci Code called for a boycott of the film. The Coalition...

In late March, the Pennsylvania State Select Committee held hearings on academic freedom at Millersville University. Witnesses included university administrators, professors, officials from outside organizations such as the Intercollegiate Study Institute and a few students, but the most condemning words presented against the Pennsylvania colleges and universities were spoken by Professor Alan Levy of Slippery Rock University. “Many students thus report that a professor on my campus openly commences her classes with the unashamed statement that she teaches from a feminist perspective and that no other outlooks are welcome before her,” said Levy explaining how Women’s Studies at Slippery Rock...

College professors say the darndest things. Recently, we got an e-mail that signaled that the battle for academic freedom would soon be won or, at least, negotiated to a mutually acceptable stalemate by all of the parties in the conflict, but there was a catch. “I’m a professor that doesn’t give just the conservative side of an issue, I try to expose every side of an issue,” our visitor wrote. “That’s what a liberal education really is.” So far, so good, but here’s the rub: What was odd about this declaration of principle was that it came from the Music...

When a professor at Slippery Rock chose to parody The Vagina Monologues with handbills for the fictitious play that incorporated the name of the male organ, fliers for the event were torn down by female members of the faculty, incensed at the use of academic freedom to satirize their favorite play, a professor from the Pennsylvania school told disbelieving state assemblymen. Professor Alan Levy also said students have complained to him that the education teachers said if there were a teacher strike and any of the students crossed picket lines, the teachers would see to it that they never got...

Professors are never more revealing than when they are trying to deny that higher education and those who deliver it have any bias whatsoever. Dr. John Doolittle of American University offered several such insights in a debate with me at the AU campus earlier this month. Dr. Doolittle pointed out that when he studied at the University of Wisconsin in the early 1970s, “I knew for a fact that three professors voted for Richard Nixon.” He did not say what happened to the political balance on the university faculty when that Republican trio retired. Moreover, UWI has hundreds of professors...

Two prominent Pennsylvania universities, Penn State and Temple, were sued Wednesday by the Alliance Defense Fund on behalf of PSU student Alfred Joseph (A.J.) Fluehr and Temple student Christian M. DeJohn. Both legal complaints were filed at the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Michael Willis has designed an airport terminal in San Francisco and a 750 million-gallon water treatment plant in Los Angeles, but nothing on the architect's resume gives him a blueprint for rebuilding New Orleans. Not since the Nazi blitz of London or the bombing of Hiroshima have architects and urban planners seen a project on par with resurrecting this hurricane-ravaged city, according to Willis. "The scale of it overwhelms the normal city planning process," he said Saturday during a break at the Louisiana Recovery and Rebuilding Conference, a state-sponsored event organized by the American Institute of...

One of the highlights of the Conservative University conference that Accuracy in Academia recently held was the image of veteran journalist M. Stanton Evans delivering his talk on the late Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wisc., to an audience which included a lawyer from the ACLU. Evans, who is becoming as accomplished an historian as he is a writer on current events, has come to the conclusion that the crusading anti-communist was wronged by his critics and, hence, by history itself particularly in textbooks. The ACLU, of course, has long held otherwise. The former newspaper editor and syndicated columnist is determined...

Many argue that communism will never be possible because of "human nature". The essence of this false argument is the belief that a communist society would consist of an all-powerful central government that would tell everybody what to do--and would therefore undermine the creative initiative of individuals and the search for happiness. • This argument is based on two false assumptions: (1) It assumes that a communist society will look like the former Soviet Union, or the current China, North Korea, etc (ie: corrupt police states with a feudal-style ruling class) (2) It assumes that people will only work in...

Here is the list so far for sponcers to this hate America fest: ANSWER Code Pink UFPJ NION Al Awda World Workers Party Ruckas Revolutionary Communist party Moveon.org ACORN Campus Antiwar Network International Socialist Org Greens Party Muslim Student Association CPUSA

At its 20th anniversary dinner, Accuracy in Academia will make its first annual presentation of its Little Churchill awards, named after Ward not Winston, for dubious academic achievement. Just as the colorful Ethnic Studies professor has distinguished himself for calling the victims of the World Trade Center attacks of 9-11-01 Little Eichmanns, thus comparing them to the notorious Nazi from the Second World War, so too have a host of academics distinguished themselves by their ethnic sensitivity in an age of "tolerance." But Ward Churchill's achievements do not end there. He has also produced scholarship that either already appeared elsewhere...

I met Ben Shapiro last year when we both spoke on Capitol Hill at an event sponsored by Accuracy in Academia. For those who don’t know, Ben is an underachiever. At 21, he is a Harvard Law Student, a nationally syndicated columnist, and now the author of his second book, Porn Generation. I didn’t think that Ben could juggle his responsibilities as a first-year law student and write a second book as well-researched and provocative as his first book, Brainwashed (which catapulted to # 4 on Amazon.com last summer). I was wrong. With the publication of Porn Generation, Ben is...

  How many Americans know that one K-12 civics textbook is directly subsidized by our tax dollars? Because of the government subsidy, schools can buy this textbook (high school version) for $10 a copy—about one-fifth the cost of competitor's textbooks. The book is called We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution and is written and published by the Center for Civic Education (CCE). There are three different editions—grade school, middle school and high school. This book was first funded in 1994 by HR6, the spending bill that was part of the Goals 2000, School-to-Work package. This textbook was re-authorized and...

Listen While You Freep! All programs are replayed for 23 hours and again on weekends so tune in when it’s convenient for YOU! Call In Number - 866-884-TALK (8255) Heating the EDGE of a New Media! 1pm EST - : Paul Sperry has written an alarming account of how radical Islamists have permeated every layer of American society from children’s classrooms to the highest levels of our federal government called, “Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives Have Penetrated Washington.” The lies used by Muslim leaders and terrorists to conceal their agenda, the threat posed by the 20,000 Muslims who are...

A February 25, 2004 article, archived at the website of Accuracy in Academia, an organization devoted to documenting excesses in the academic world, discusses a recent campus dispute. A group of students at the College of William and Mary held special “bake sales” in which they charged white students more money than black students for baked goods in an attempt to display the absurdities of affirmative action. Some school administrators shut down this demonstration on grounds that it was "illegal," but could point to no statute or school regulation that would say so. Thus, the administrators eventually backed down and...

The material covered in Western Civ is not important only for one’s academic foundation, but also for the understanding of culture and one’s place in that culture. Useful insight into the world will come when people understand the world not just as it is, but also as it was. “Today the distant past is a neglected vital resource,” writes Steven Ozment, a Harvard historian, in the essay, “Why We Study Western Civ,” in the current issue of The Public Interest. In the essay, Ozment outlines the importance of the once-widespread Western Civ survey courses in high school and college curriculums....

Reed Irvine, the founder of Accuracy in Media, a watchdog group dedicated to exposing, challenging and at times bullying those he accused of slanting news coverage from a liberal perspective, died on Tuesday at a hospice in Rockville, Md. He was 82. A longtime resident of Silver Spring, Md., Mr. Irvine had recently moved to Gaithersburg, Md. The cause was complications of a stroke, said his son, Donald, AIM's current chairman. Founded in 1969, Accuracy in Media is a group that, as Mr. Irvine described it, was intended to be "representative of the consumers of the journalistic product and not...

Sometimes schools do silly things, particularly in the name of racial diversity, that, more frequently, only deepen racial division. When Jason Mattera, a student at Roger Williams University, offered a controversial “whites only” scholarship to students at the school, the project drew national criticism. “Fifty radio stations had me on with the local director of the NAACP,” Mattera remembered in an appearance before Accuracy in Academia’s Conservative University conference in July. Mattera, who heads the College Republicans at Roger Williams, remembered that even the state GOP wanted no part of the project, which he said was intended to parody government...

Making its break from reality official, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) named as its new chief a college administrator who is famous for sponsoring conferences on sex at a state university. Last year, the AAUP objected when the University of South Florida dismissed a professor that the U.S. government arrested for working with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Additionally, the AAUP has consistently opposed the Academic Bill of Rights constructed by Students for Academic Freedom. “The danger of such guidelines is that they invite diversity to be measured by political standards that diverge from the academic criteria of the...

When Dr. Hatem Bazian called for an intifada in the United States, he claimed that he was misunderstood; but other statements that he has made show him to be such a consistent foe of America that one wonders why he is still here. “Well, we’ve been watching intifada in Palestine, we’ve been watching an uprising in Iraq, and the question is, what are we doing?” Dr. Bazian asked the crowd at a rally at the University of California at Berkeley, where he teaches. “How come we don’t have an intifada in this country?” Dr. Bazian asked the crowd. Dr. Bazian...

Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., has agreed to speak at this summer’s Conservative University conference, Accuracy in Academia (AIA) has announced. A former civics teacher, state legislator, and U.S. Department of Education official in the Reagan administration, Rep. Tancredo was first elected to the U.S. Congress in 1998. He represents the citizens of Colorado’s Sixth Congressional District. A hero to conservatives, Rep. Tancredo is widely regarded as the leading immigration-reform advocate in Congress. Less publicized—but of great interest to AIA—are his efforts on the educational front. In response to the decline of history standards in American public schools, Rep. Tancredo has...

Because we can frequently find answers to present problems in the past, most established colleges and universities actively discourage the genuine study of history, especially since they themselves have created a crisis that cries for a solution. “We have succeeded in sending a great many people to college and university,” legendary scholar Russell Kirk noted more than a quarter century ago. “We have not succeeded in educating most of them.” Dr. W. Wesley McDonald, himself a political science professor at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania, shows us how much we can still learn from the sage of Mecosta, Michigan in Russell...

When I recently had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Jay Bergman of Central Connecticut State University (CCSU), I couldn’t help but wonder, what’s a nice guy like this doing teaching in a school like that? When he complained in a letter to the local newspaper about the lack of intellectual diversity at CCSU, he cited as an example the day-long forum on slavery reparations in the United States held by the African Studies Program (ASP). Dr. Bergman pointed out that the same department was entirely mute on the subject of the enslavement of Africans by Africans taking place to this...

The Classics on Campus: Looking for William Shakespeare by: Malcolm A. Kline, March 24, 2004 Mention the classics on college campuses today and you are lucky if you get references to Coca-Cola or cars—and that’s in the faculty lounges and administration offices. One of our readers summed up the change in college education in an e-mail to us. “My God,” he wrote, “when I went to university I studied Plato, Socrates, Faulkner, Hemingway, Steinbeck, European and World History, French Literature, and Canadian History, to mention a few of the courses I took. And I was taking Engineering!” Researchers at the...

Cary, N.C.—Renegade professors and serious students hoping to buck the politically correct trend that engulfs academia and makes shared knowledge an endangered species may not find much refuge in their local community college. Dr. Michael Filozof certainly found no sanctuary at Monroe Community College in Rochester, New York. Married, with one daughter, the tenure-track political science professor at the school now faces imminent unemployment as a result of a scurrilous whispering campaign by two professors who found his political views (support for President Bush and for U.S. troops in Iraq) hard to take. When Dr. Filozof placed an American flag...

Millions of K-12 students throughout the United States have participated in “A Classroom of Difference,” an “anti-bias” program produced by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The curriculum is often glowingly publicized as just what schools need to “eliminate harassment, bullying, and racial tension,” as one newspaper put it. But how much do parents and taxpayers know about the content of the program that many of their schools are rushing to adopt? The program has grown dramatically since 1985, when it began in Boston as a joint endeavor between ADL and a local television station. Today, the “A Classroom of Difference” program...

February 6, 2004 - If you have seen signs for the Muslim Student Association on college campuses and wondered who they are, where they came from and whether they exist on student fees alone, you are not alone. Federal investigators are curious too. The Senate Finance Committee is investigating non-profit groups to determine whether those organizations might be a source of funding for terrorist activities. Among the groups that the Committee wants Internal Revenue Service records on: the Muslim Student Association (MSA), active on campuses throughout the United States. "Many of these groups not only enjoy tax-exempt status, but their...

America's largest teachers union, the National Education Association (NEA) commands unparalleled resources, especially in elections, but its membership may be its undoing as surveys and investigations reveal how out of touch the NEA is with its members. On gay rights, even the union itself concedes that its stances "are often a source of controversy-both internally with Association members, and externally with the media, political decision-makers, and the general public." "Schools cannot be neutral when we're dealing with [homosexual] issues," former NEA president Bob Chase said. "I'm not talking about tolerance. I'm talking about acceptance." In the state of Washington, EFF...

What do you do when your seventh grader tells you that he has to dress up like a Bedouin nomad to get an A in his Islamic Studies class? If you are Alicia Rodriguez, you just say no."From the beginning, you and your classmates will become Muslims," the simulation directions that went with the course promised. "During your journey, you will travel in caravans, enact generosity and hospitality, engage in trade, dress up as a desert nomad or Bedouin, eat authentic food from the Islamic world, build Islamic structures, produce poetry, create works of art, and race to be the...

Unflattering caricatures of President Bush adorn many cubicles at the State Department, syndicated columnist Joel Mowbray told the audience at AIA's Conservative University conference last summer, and the scorn does not end there. When the President named Iran, Iraq and North Korea as the Axis of Evil, our top diplomats, Mowbray recalled, were quick to assure anyone who would listen that Bush "didn't mean Axis, didn't mean Evil." A month afterward, State Department Policy Director Richard Haass recommended that Israeli officials 'engage' Iran [much to their likely confusion, Mowbray added].President Bush recently stated that he was hopeful for a Democracy...

What exactly is “social ecology?” Perform a quick internet search of the term and you might get the impression that it’s what you get when you mix socialism, anti-modern utopianism, and environmentalist fear-mongering. The “Institute for Social Ecology” offers this definition: Social Ecology n 1: a coherent radical critique of current social, political, and anti-ecological trends. 2: a reconstructive, ecological, communitarian, and ethical approach to society. The same search will also uncover an essay republished on the “Anarchist Archives” website titled “What is Social Ecology?” The answer according to the essay’s author, Murray Bookchin, seems to be the study of...