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College graduates, disappointed to find that they are working in minimum-wage positions rather than the “green jobs” their university promised them, might be startled to learn that they got their wish.

One thing that journalism and the humanities have in common is that people don’t like either of them. Yet another thing they have in common is that journalists and English professors can’t figure out why.

Conspiracy theorists may go bananas over the latest evidence of collusion between higher education and the Obama Administration, but it may just be a case of birds of a feather working together, albeit more closely than ever.

“Race to the Top” required that states commit to yet-to-be-written Common Core standards in math and English/Language Arts (ELA).

When initial White House visitor logs were released in 2009, the administration quickly dismissed speculations about visits by “William Ayers.”

It’s interesting to see the value system at work among university administrators when they actually have to cut their budgets.

From coast to coast, parents not at the tender mercies of the Chicago Teachers Union are taking control of their children’s education.

Ninety  Georgetown  faculty members and administrators have gone public with a letter attacking Republican vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan’s budget proposal but the bill of particulars in the missive does not match up to the content of his plan.

Halloween is not here yet but universities are already channeling Charlie Brown in their eager anticipation of their own Great Pumpkin—green jobs.

When we last wrote of controversial Mid-East Studies scholar Tariq Ramadan, he was set to arrive in the United States to teach at Notre Dame on a newly minted visa that the last presidential administration had denied him.

Despite Cuba’s ongoing human rights crimes under Raul Castro, it apparently remains fashionable for professors and professionals to invite influential Cubans to meet with American and international audiences on U.S. soil.

In a report put out by this month by majority staff of the U. S. House of Representatives’ Committee of Energy and Commerce, Sexual Risk Avoidance (SRA) has been lauded as the best approach to avoiding teenage pregnancy.