Posted June 13, 2013, by Mary Grabar: Check out the Selous Foundation for Public Policy Research for Part I of my three-part series on Common Core testing, "Common Core, Teaching to the New Test." Testing, er "assessments," will drive the curriculum (it already is). Then read the great review of Exiled by Rachel Alexander, "Blacklisted by Higher Education." She writes,
Bias against conservative professors in academia is getting worse, not better. Mary Grabar, a conservative professor of English, has put together a series of essays by conservative and moderate professors who have found themselves shunned and frozen out of academia due to not espousing liberal political views. Each professor – all white males, due to the trend in academia in favor of women and minorities at the expense of men – explains the horrific experiences they have undergone simply trying to make a living in this field. Most of them have been shut out of well-paying full-time work at 4-year institutions, instead relegated to “perpetual adjunct status, teaching twice as many classes as the average course load, for wages that work out to be less than minimum wage.” They are willing to speak up in her book because they have “nothing to lose except such poorly paying temporary employment.”
The forecast is gloomy, but Dissident Prof is trying to change that. Many thanks to supporters that are helping to spread the word.
IRS Update: Dissident Prof sent the 1023 application for nonprofit status 501(c)(3) with the required $850.00 application fee on February 8, 2013. 94 days ago we were notified that we should expect to hear of our status in 90 days. Day 4 and counting. The check, however, was cashed almost immediately.
