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“The University of Central Florida is one of more than 30 colleges the Internal Revenue Service has been auditing to see whether they have paid enough taxes on profits earned through advertising, special events and other commercial activities.”— Denise-Marie Balona, Orlando Sentinel,  December 10, 2011

The governor of Texas, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, got a first-hand taste of what college life is like for conservative students on a foray into an Ames, Iowa coffee shop.

The authors who are read most widely are those who are no longer around. Former Accuracy in Academia executive director Dan Flynn pays homage to a quartet of them in his latest book, Blue Collar Intellectuals.

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) may have actually latched onto a case in which the first amendment rights of a left-wing professor are genuinely at risk.

Some observers such as your servant have been dismissed for reading and relating the anonymous reviews found on Rate My Professors.com.

Putting the power of life and death in anyone’s hands is a dubious undertaking, to put it mildly. Giving such responsibility to a pair of academics is questionable, at best.

Marrying the professoriate to America’s fighting force is a marriage even a Las Vegas official wouldn’t bless yet such a union is taking place right now in Pennsylvania.

A campus conservative at UC Davis was so disgusted by slanted coverage of the Occupy movement that he reached out to Fox News and provided the channel a video showing police officers being surrounded by protesters after dismantling an illegal tent site.

Recently, from inside of academia, veterans of academe have made proposals for reforming higher education that may be among the most far-reaching of any to come from colleges and universities in many a decade.

Fresh from Occupying Wall Street, demonstrators are training their sights on the City University of New York which is planning on raising tuition.

“Should teenagers who are too young to drink be allowed to take out five-figure loans?”— Eric Hoover in The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 2, 2011.

“One might sooner see a herd of unicorns march down Wall Street that a world where student loans are interest-free.” Eric Hoover in The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 2, 2011.