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Duke University’s undergraduate curriculum — like many others – went through a period of erosion beginning in the late 1960s but might be making a comeback.

The lack of confidence in the education establishment at the elementary, secondary and higher levels has spread well beyond the political conservatives normally associated with this attitude.

“Political Indoctrination and Harassment on Campus: Is there a problem?” was the title of the intense debate between Students for Academic Freedom (SAF) founder David Horowitz and American Association of University Professors President Cary Nelson at The Second Annual Academic Freedom Conference held this past weekend in Washington D.C.

A new book exposes environmental scares that have become textbook mainstays but bear more than a passing resemblance to urban legends.

In the current issue of Radical Teacher, one of their writers tries to relay our history, with some success.

At a time when the newly seated U. S. Congress is moving to increase federal aid to higher education, one way or another, yet another college has broken the one-billion-dollar mark in its endowment cache—George Washington University.

At least one of the proposals to increase federal aid to higher education contains a provision that would virtually guarantee an explosion in the growth of government in the very near future.

If the largest conclave of college English professors in the country sometimes sounded like a Democratic Party strategy session at the Modern Language Association meeting late last year, it might be because the two groups’ membership rolls have an overlap.

Even sympathetic observers of the Modern Language Association (MLA) offer up vignettes about what may be the world’s largest collection of English professors that make the group look rather odd.

The Modern language Association’s panel on “Terrorism, Technology and Visual Media” helped show just how loosely the higher education establishment now defines the term “liberal arts.”

Among college English professors, the passing on of literary traditions and literacy has gone from avocation to afterthought to alien concept, as can be seen in the annual conventions of the Modern Language Association.

In their unguarded moments, college professors say the darndest things.