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The withdrawal of George Mason University’s (GMU) speaking invitation to controversial filmmaker Michael Moore stands out in a school year in which the presidential election gives college professors and administrators the chance to vividly display their partisan biases.

When a college professor upbraided a student in an e-mail to the class over that student’s refusal to accept homosexuality in a discussion centered around that topic, the instructor set off a chain reaction that led to a federal investigation.

School officials have no trouble finding projects to spend budget dollars on: Duke University, for example, gives each freshman a cutting-edge high tech i-pod for no particular reason.

In warning a sympathetic Washington, D. C. audience of the “fearmongering” of the Bush Administration, a Brooklyn College professor conjured up some demons of his own.

The Department of Education finally caught up with heterophobe Professor Elyse Crystall but the faculty there is trying hard not to notice.

Michael Moore is coming to Utah, whether it wants him or not.

A veteran educator takes a look at his profession and finds it wanting in intellectual diversity and rigorous training.

Leave it up to the academic left to try and extinguish views that would
challenge their own.

A veteran newsman now teaching a university course in news media bias does not see a liberal tilt in reporting by networks and print outlets.

When federal agents denied a controversial Mid East scholar a work visa, the school that wanted to hire him also went into denial.

When the president of Benedict College (BC) decided to base most of the grades of the school’s freshmen on effort rather than test scores, research in papers and grammar, school officials say he was making official a policy widely in place in Academia.

While undergraduates across the country express interest in signing up for the Reserve Officer Training Corps, these students are
more likely than not unable to find a branch at their own alma mater.