Posted February 16, 2015, by Mary Grabar: It's Presidents' Day.  Which one?  George Washington.  (And in the north we used to celebrate Abraham Lincoln's birthday on his birthday as well.)  The Dissident Prof would like to remind our political leaders of the proper duties and attitudes of a president, as opposed to a monarch, or a plutocrat, or a celebrity... Herewith, a passage from George Washington's Farewell Address addressed to Fellow Citizens:

Read more: Contraries: President's Day, Feelings for Valentine's, FREE College

Posted July 2, 2013: by Mary Grabar: While students flee for summer fun 'n sun, their teachers are preparing indoctrination lessons for the fall, with help from our government and our government-supported PBS. A "documentary film and strategic entertainment company," Kontentreal, produces propaganda films for PBS, which then distributes them to government schools.  One is about Generation G, a generation of preteens anxious about the sustainability of the planet.  It's filmed at the exclusive Sidwell Friends School attended by Sasha and Malia Obama. 

PBS Teachers, in its most recent newsletter, promotes a lesson in collectivism for high school students called "Affordable Green Housing"--produced by Kontentreal.  The focus is on "community," which means forcing people of all income levels to live together.

Read more: Contraries: PBS Lessons in Green Housing and "Killing Shakespeare" for Common Core

Posted May 20, 2016, by Mary Grabar: Melissa Click, the bullying professor despised by most Americans, as many of you know, has been fired from her post at the University of Missouri. She is the symptom of the problem: arrogant professors who feel unbeholden to their employers, as I described in my article, "Melissa Click: One Bad Professor Fired, Thousands More to Go," at The Federalist. The ex-professor does have her allies, including Spike Lee, who made a movie about the protests last fall and the Chronicle of Higher Education.  (This is despite the fact that Click claimed that she was fired because she is a white lady.)  The American Association of University Professors has also come to the aid of the Lady Gaga scholar.  They visited the campus in March and just released their report that concluded (surprise and drum roll) that Dr. Click did not receive due process and was fired for political reasons.  At their meeting in June, they will take a vote on whether the university should be placed on its "censure list," along with such other institutions as Hillsdale College, Grove City College, and the University of Southern Maine.

Read more: Contraries: May 20, 2016: Melissa Click, MU, and Common Core Books

Posted August 15, 2014, by Mary Grabar: Dispatching from the Alexander Hamilton Institute, where Professor Robert Paquette outdoes himself in a post titled "The New Discrimination on U.S. Campuses" at SeeThruEd.  It's discrimination against intended beneficiaries of affirmative action, illustrated by the fake Indians Ward Churchill and Elizabeth Warren, former Harvard law professor, now senator from Massachusetts. Warren has issued Eleven Commandments of Progressivisim: 

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