Higher Education Comical Politics

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 →

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 →

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 →

College Bureaucrats Paid $250,000 Feed Hoosier Taxpayer Outcry

Where is the money for higher education in Indiana really going to? According to the universities and according to the Indiana Commission on Higher Education (ICHE) the following article from Bloomberg news is a complete fabrication. Read the following commentary and decide for yourself. Bureaucrats Paid $250,000 Feed Outcry Over College Costs - Bloomberg. The universities and ICHE are also... Read more →

Testimony to the Senate Appropriation Committee

Tomorrow, Thursday, is my testimony in front of the Senate Appropriation Committee on the forthcoming budget. It will be at about 11:00 am. My testimony will focus on monetary fairness to Hoosier students, to end subsidizing other state's through our own higher education, legislative oversight of what is spent, and constitutional rights of Hoosiers. Given a financial equity to Hoosiers,... Read more →

When Did Mitch Daniels Become Anti-Black and Anti-Hispanic?

Former Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels is now President of Purdue University, a state supported Hoosier university. He has done two things since becoming president of Purdue. One, froze in-state student tuition at it current level for two years. Two, he has implement "money saving" organizational changes that are specifically aimed at hurting Hispanic and African-American Hoosier students who are attending... Read more →

Hoosiers Give Higher Education Millions; But, No Questions Are to be Asked

The Hoosier State Legislature is being asked to provide hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to the State's universities. We, Hoosier taxpayers, and voters, are further asked to provide hundreds of millions of dollars through our tuition payments for our children at these very same universities. This unending asking should come with a certain thank-you, appreciation, and fiduciary duty on... Read more →

Why Hoosier Universities Need a Forensic Audit -- Now!!!

When I addressed the Indiana House Ways and Means Committee yesterday (speaking for all tax paying Hoosier citizens), I asked for a forensic audit of all universities in Indiana that receive our tax payer money. (I actually said "feduciary" audit, although, that would be true also.) Not a single person on the committee had any idea what any money that... Read more →

Where Does the Higher Education Money Go?

The second biggest expense for Hoosier tax payers is higher education. (First is K-12 education.) Do any of the Indiana taxpayer, never mind their representatives, know where this money goes? From all indications, e.g. graduation rates, tuition increases, growth of administration, low education quality, etc., it is NOT going to Hoosier students and their education. (Nor does it promote Hoosier... Read more →

Which Mitch Daniels Will Show Up Monday as President of Purdue University?

Who is Mitch Daniels as Purdue's President becomes a legitimate question to ask when there is little knowledge of the Daniels commitments on the issue of higher education in Indiana or the Nation. This becomes especially true for Republicans and Conservatives because the Hoosier higher education establishment is almost 100% liberal and Democratic. As President, what Constitutional and Hoosier values... Read more →