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At a recent Modern Language Association (MLA) panel on “Disability and Human Rights,” assistant Professor Rebecca Wanzo argued for a new gynecological justice and equated unequal access to “family planning” resources with the controversial practice of female genital mutilation.

A professor emerita at Stanford University, Marjorie Gabrielle Perloff dedicated the majority of her 20-minute speech to commenting on Barack Obama’s highly electable character and his autobiography.

With three semesters gone, the list of dubious academic achievements of 2008 is a long one but we will try to whittle it down.

One of the oddities of modern-day Catholic higher education, particularly in institutions run by Jesuit priests, is that Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues seems to be more ubiquitous on such campuses than Nativity scenes or Crucifixes.

Although the U.S. president-elect is not even in office yet, his supporters are already changing the face of higher education in America moving it, if possible, even further left.

According to Nicholas Eberstadt, an American Enterprise Institute scholar, journalists and policy makers will likely find that next year’s census report poverty statistics are arbitrary to the true economic state of America’s poorest citizens.

Inner city teachers have long talked of getting “combat pay” for teaching in troubled schools but now they are taking the military analogy to a whole new level.

It is very likely that under a new gender equity program, the University of Texas at Austin, home to a professor who favors Title IX requirements for professors, will concentrate on providing gender parity within its science departments.

Central Michigan University has decided to charge a conservative student organization hundreds of dollars for security at a recent event with
nationally-known author, commentator and activist David Horowitz despite a threat of legal action.

Some of America’s bishops are actually starting to defend Catholic principles with a vigor not seen in decades.

Despite experts’ efforts to find conventional and affordable ways to raise livestock, to grow healthy vegetation, while protecting the environment still remains a major problem in the 21st century.

Apart from adult entertainment, the city fathers of Las Vegas actually find a lot of things they want to regulate, such as education.