Higher Education Comical Politics

Free Speech and Academic Freedom -- Where is the Faculty Senate?

The following article is dedicated to Dr. David Pick, the Purdue Calumet Faculty Senate President. In my experience, Dr. Picks displays ignorance of American Supreme Court decisions on free speech and academic freedom as it applies to faculty. And he is president of the Senate, go figure. The second "dedication" is to Dr. Colin Fewer, one of our College of... Read more →

Kamalipour Made Pro-American By Leftist Faculty At Senate Meeting.

Today the Faculty Senate at Purdue University Calumet will vote to show its continued support and legitimization of a racist faculty member, Prof. Yahya Kamalipour. Why is he racist? The simple answer is that Prof. Yahya Kamlipour supports the vilification of the Jews (historically, such vilification has led to Jewish death campus – but hey, never mind). How has he... Read more →

The Muslim, brings the Jewish anti-Semite to campus -- a true story

This is a true story about Purdue University and Prof. Kamalipour, a Muslim who promotes himself as seeking peace and tolerance across all humanity, bringing, with full approval and payment from the University -- that is, $1,500 of taxpayer funds from the University to fund this speaker, the anti-Semite Mr. Bruzonsky to speak, have dinner with faculty, and "enlighten" students.... Read more →

Purdue University's Jewish Problem?

On September 27, 2013, Mr. Mark Bruzonsky will give a presentation at Purdue University Calumet. The title of his presentation is: “America and the Middle East—So Many Wars, So Little Peace, WHY?" According to Purdue University Calumet's own advertising, Dr. Kamalipour was “instrumental in bringing Bruzonsky to Purdue Calumet" (here). Because I am interested in the Middle East, I decided... Read more →

Due Process is the American Ethos -- But not at American Universities

It is very difficult to believe that this continues to occur on campus of universities who call themselves "American." 'Chronicle of Higher Education' on Three Due Process Cases to Watch - The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education - FIRE.Related articles How Totalitarian will Mitch Daniels Allow Purdue University to Get? The FIRE Quarterly, Fall 2012 - The Foundation for... Read more →

How Did Oman's Bayan College Become Purdue's Newest Regional Campus?

Chancellor Thomas Keon, one assumes with the approval of President Mitch Daniels and the Purdue Board of Trustees, has decided to have another Purdue Regional Campus in Oman. That is in the Gulf of Arabia for those who wonder. Why is Indiana supporting another regional campus in Oman? Maybe they do not know what to do with your money? For... Read more →

Local Colleges Doing Fine Financially; Keon and Purdue Claim Need to Fire Faculty

Why is Keon and the other administrators not responsible? The only ones who are made to pay are the academic people who bring in the dollars. Read the following to see that everyone else, NWI academia, is doing ok. That inherently means that Keon and his cronies are making up stories. Sadly Mitch Daniels, as Purdue's president, believes them. Other... Read more →

What Happened to Purdue Calumet? Ivy Tech exceeds fundraising goal by millions

Purdue University Calumet (PUC) has been hiring friends and supporters, but incompetent ones, of Chancellor Keon to perform the roles upon everyone else's economic livelihood is dependent. A good example is the Vice Chancellor for Advancement. This former highly paid administrative assistant to Keon is now in charge of fund raising. Is this a real joke? Now look at what... Read more →

Has Purdue University Truly Reduced the Cost of Higher Education?

Recently the Purdue University Board of Trustees, under the guidance of the University's new President Mitch Daniels, implemented a freeze on any further tuition increase for the next two years. The argument presented at the time is that this will cost Purdue $40 million. The freeze only applied to West Lafayette and not the regional campuses. In reality does this... Read more →

How Totalitarian will Mitch Daniels Allow Purdue University to Get?

Where Purdue University Calumet is highlighted as abusing the due process and First Amendment rights of a faculty member in the following Wall Street Journal editorial, that person is me. See the following: Greg Lukianoff: Feds to Students: You Can't Say That - WSJ.com. What is truly remarkable is that this is a continuation of the anti-American activity of previous... Read more →