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Ever on the watch for the latest academic buzzwords, we look with curiosity upon the latest offering—sustainable development.

It’s interesting to see the degree to which proponents of diversity will censor speech in order to achieve that elusive pluralism, no matter how innocuous the expression is.

A colorful lot arguably more activist than academic or even journalistic.

On Monday morning, one University of Iowa professor had three words to say to those conservative students at her university.

One of the nation’s premier journalism graduate programs is facing a credibility crisis over one of the programs it showcases on its website.

If America is to retain its prestige in the rapidly expanding global economy, our business schools are going to have to get serious.

Catholic high school graduates hoping to continue their education in institutions of higher learning affiliated with the Mother Church might be surprised by what they find.

What you heard about soda taxes as a cure for obesity comes from an academic.

Colleges and universities are promising graduates “green jobs” at the end of their education, secure in the knowledge that if they fail to materialize, schools won’t be liable for damages under Truth in Advertising laws.

Believe it or not, a Berkeley sociologist recently offered a surprisingly clear-eyed and coherent assessment of Communist China.

There is at least one academic who understands the roots of the current financial crisis in the United States. Maybe that is because, unlike most pedagogues, he came from the business world.

He was most known for being President Jimmy Carter’s head of the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) when it began the deregulation of the airline industry in 1977-78. He was my Economics professor at Cornell University in the late 1960’s.