(Akiit.com) The F-35 stealth fighter aircraft is one expensive plane. It costs $135 million to produce a single aircraft, but Congress is prepared to authorize spending for 90 more planes, a dozen more than the Pentagon has requested. Why? Lobbyists for Lockheed Martin, the company that produces these aircraft, have exercised their fine ...
(Akiit.com) Throughout history, there are always icons who emerge to inspire future generations. Unfortunately, while there are plenty of African-American individuals who have enjoyed great success, they don’t tend to be given the same recognition as their Caucasian counterparts. STEM subjects have been in the news recently as firms and ...
(Akiit.com) Distinguished professor emeritus of economics at Ohio University Richard Vedder’s new book, “Restoring the Promise,” published by the Independent Institute based in Oakland, California, is about the crisis in higher education. He summarizes the three major problems faced by America’s colleges and universities. First, our universities “are vastly too ...
(Akiit.com) Last week’s column discussed the highly publicized university corruption scheme wherein wealthy parents bought admission at prestigious universities for their children. That is dishonest and gives an unfair advantage to those young people but won’t destroy the missions of the universities. There is little or no attention given by ...
(Akiit.com) George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School hired Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh to co-teach a course this summer called Creation of the Constitution. The course will be held 3,668 miles away, in Runnymede, England, where the Magna Carta was sealed 800 years ago. Some George Mason University ...
(Akiit.com) Logging on to the website of the National Education Association, the nation’s largest teachers union, the first flashing headline that meets the eye attacks Education Secretary Betsy DeVos: “Betsy DeVos and Her No Good, Very Bad Record on Public Education.” What perturbs the NEA is that DeVos sees her ...
(Akiit.com) There has been a lot of talk about whether or not there is a crisis on the border. I will leave that debate to the politicians. However, there is no debate about whether or not America has a crisis hitting all 50 states and over 40 million people. This crisis ...
(Akiit.com) There are more ways to study a degree than ever before. This flexibility has made it possible for more people to take advantage of higher education. Whether you need to study around commitments or don’t want to end up with student debts, there is certain to be an option for ...
(Akiit.com) A break-up is one of the most difficult things that you can face in life, and it can seem as though your world is falling apart around you. What are you going to do without that person that you cared about so deeply; the person with whom you shared everything? ...
(Akiit.com) William Singer is going to jail. He’s the man who masterminded the college cheating scandal, collecting more than $25 million in bribes between 2011 and 2018 for helping the children of millionaires get into college through what he called “the side door.” More than 50 people got caught up in ...
(Akiit.com) So many of us can feel that we are hindered by our own limited intelligence. And this is something that we feel that we are born with, that we can’t improve. But what we need to discuss more is the deep-rooted impacts of these. If we feel that we’re not ...
(Akiit.com) For many years many Black people have been denied opportunities for no reason other than the color of their skin. I’ve been guilty like many others who said, “It must be nice to have white privilege!” Now, I’m not so sure. I’d rather not have anybody knocking on my door ...