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A look at the cutting edge concerns of gender studies departments helps give us an idea of just how wide a gulf there is between academics and mere mortals.

Accuracy in Academia has signed onto a letter to the U. S. Department of Education urging the agency not to encourage more restrictive speech codes at colleges and universities.

In American University’s law school lecture series this Spring, legal training is virtually indistinguishable from community organizing.

The University of Scranton, which bills itself as “a nationally recognized Catholic and Jesuit university in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains region,”  has invited a pro-choice speaker to its campus—former U. S. Rep. Marjorie Margolies.

Just in time for School Choice Week.

English majors in America today may be pursuing dubious studies but they also face dim job prospects.

You may think you know Spiderman but wait until you see a panel of experts deconstruct him.

Those of us who grew up watching Charlie Chan at the Olympics and in Monte Carlo and various other locales were, nevertheless, somewhat surprised to, figuratively, run into the honorable character at the Modern Language Association (MLA) convention, the world’s largest gathering of English professors.

Courtesy of the College Fix.

Intellectuals become quite unnerved when we common folk do our own research in what they call “the Humanities.”

Seattle, WA—  At academic conferences, you can get a pretty good idea of trends in higher education not only from the presentations of tenured professors but also from the offerings of Ph.D. candidates.

Seattle, WA—  One of the remarkable things about college today is the degree to which professors and students engage in activity, that for the cost of admission, they could pursue off campus for next to nothing.