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While Girl Scouts around the country went door to door selling cookies, their national representatives were trying to explain a sex brochure distributed at a UN meeting the GSA was represented at.

Beware of people who tell you what “everybody knows,” particularly if they are academics.

A UT Austin professor may be exercising her academic freedom by acting as a pre-publication censor for Random House.

Welcome back to campus…are you ready for a revolution?

A group called the Center on Education Policy has actually issued an upbeat report about education in the United States. How? By downplaying test results.

Although at least one professor thinks that they are not too bright, conservative students at Duke University, who are plentiful, and faculty members, who are not, have found some ingenious ways to get their point across.

Due to a new endowment by the University of Texas-Austin, low- and middle-income students could receive free college tuition if their family earns up to $60,000 a year.

While there are way more incidences of crazy professors caught on video, here are five who will surely make wonder what has happened to today’s college campuses

Academics are hardly shy about offering businesses advice but they go ballistic when industry deigns to return the favor.

Racial preferences embraced by supposedly elite law schools may actually be forcing blacks out of the legal profession.

Race-based college admission preferences actually hurt minority applicants, three members of the U. S. Civil Rights Commission allege.

An historic ballot proposition passed by California voters in 1996 to end race-based admissions to the University of California may have led to more blacks being admitted to UC.