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Higher education may never be more irrelevant than when it tries hard to be relevant. In the Chronicle of Higher Education, Dan Berrett surveys a trio of seminars that await incoming freshmen at the University of Richmond (UR).

Purdue president Mitch Daniels’ efforts to keep Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States out of Indiana public schools while serving as governor of the state has drawn a predictable academic outcry.

The tendency of academic elites to embrace America’s enemies is not a new one. Indeed, the academic imprimatur on any person, place or thing should give one pause.

Cheating on tests has reached such epidemic proportions that even the National School Boards Association (NSBA) is taking notice of it.

Elites, particularly academic ones, think that foreign policy is too important to be left to the American public, but the reverse may be true.

You may not want to take medical advice from academics who weigh in on public controversies.

Our correspondent went to an education seminar and ran into yet another scandal involving the Obama Administration.

An academic may find happiness in government work but what will she leave in her wake?

A major problem with the student loan bubble is that federal financial aid goes to some students that are not in dire need.

Two new documentaries celebrate Title IX and get it wrong.

The college students who supported him might not be able to afford many trips but President Obama is under no such constraints.

The federal government tries to replace questionable education policies with a question mark.