You Do Really Have to Want to Be President

At least partly because of the bad weather, only one Iowa voter showed up at an event for the O’Malley campaign. Here is the description below the photo distributed by CNN’s Politics newsletter: “Martin’s only man: Opposite the former governor is ‘Kenneth,’ as he was identified in a tweet by reporter Sarah Beckman, who also served…

Inside Higher Ed’s “The Best of 2015”

News Articles Failing the Entire Class Professor at Texas A&M at Galveston was so frustrated with students’ performance that he told them he wouldn’t pass anyone and that he was done with them. Administrators had other ideas. Cash Monitoring List Unveiled Education Department releases most of the names of colleges that have had access to…

The 25 Most Read Posts to the Academe Blog in 2015

Faculty Statement on Narendra Modi Visit to Silicon Valley, Multiple Authors Culling the Iowa Faculty, Aaron Barlow Alice Dreger’s Letter of Resignation at Northwestern, Alice Dreger The Revelations in Phyllis Wise’s Emails, John K. Wilson Marquette to Fire John McAdams for His Blog, John K. Wilson The Troubling Case of Professor Stephen Cohen and the…

Art, Entertainment, and Politics

The Far-Right news service Newsmax has provided the following summary of an interview conducted by Mario Lopez for the entertainment-news show Extra: “Hollywood icon Clint Eastwood praised Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ben Carson—saying that either ‘would be better than what we got.’ . . . “’I think there’s quite a few of them…

Mind-Numbing but Unabashed Ignorance

Here is an item written by Larry Klayman for the Far-Right media site World Net Daily: “As we celebrate the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ, and rejoice in the greatness of His and the Father’s universe, we turn to the New Year. A traditional ritual is reflecting on the past year, and as Time…

Housing Provided to Public University Presidents in Ohio

Peter Kirstein very recently did a post to this blog titled “Universities, Penthouses, and CEO Venality” [https://academeblog.org/2015/12/21/universities-penthouses-and-ceo-venality/] Coincidentally, the Dayton Daily News recently has published an article by Josh Sweigart on the housing provided to university presidents in Ohio. Although it includes some attention to the new residence being provided for the new president of…

Residences of Presidents of Public Universities in Ohio

This is a visual addendum to my concurrent post on this topic. Because Santa Ono, President of the University of Cincinnati, lives off-campus and accepts no housing subsidy from the university, I have excluded his residence. Other notes: The residence included here for the president of Cleveland State University was listed for sale in September…