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The MLA debate between qualitative and accentual syllabic verse, and between different styles of writing, became as much a commentary on the nature (and antecedents) of government.

An economics professor at Charleston Southern University ran afoul of federal laws when he tried to go from macro to micro.

A panel debate for a U.S. Public Service Academy at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) on Wednesday left some wondering whether its benefits would be worth its costs.

It seems like some professors simply can’t get their mind off sexuality and have allowed this fixation to the color their professional work.

In our end-of-the-year reviews, we feel that we must take special notice of a quartet of professors who have been actively working to erode American national sovereignty through the sort of proposals that come dangerously close to becoming reality no matter how conceptually divorced they are from it.

We have assembled something of a bottom 10 list, sort of a reverse U. S. News & World Report ranking, from the more than 100 professors a year whose antics we cover.

“By pretending to inject a position located in between the right and the left, multilingual American literature studies attempted to ally themselves with an ostensibly neutral position,” a Rutgers professor admitted at the Modern Language Association convention.

The recent Shakespeare panel at the 2007 Modern Language Association (MLA) convention, ironically titled “Shakesqueer,” featured four queer theorists presenting articles soon to be published by the notoriously liberal Duke University press.

Larry P. Arnn, president of Hillsdale College in Michigan is looking for a way to put morality back into America’s classrooms, a goal he believes the Department of Education has abandoned.

Those who argue that colleges and universities lack standards may be incorrect but only technically.

Art History Professor Christopher Reed offered his own unique conception of pleasure in the workplace by highlighting the social virtues of homosexual references in the television sitcom Will & Grace and a YouTube video titled “Shoes.”

Largely avoiding discussions of students’ academic freedom, the panel argues that, especially among politicized subjects, professors’ academic freedom is threatened by student evaluations, scarce tenure, and even their own professional code of ethics.