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Things to do in Denver when you’re progressive

A pair of professors from the University of Missouri School of Journalism have done a surprisingly sympathetic study of the blogging enterprise.

Veterans of Democratic presidential administrations regularly best their Republican counterparts when there are job openings in academia.

“Utopia: That’s more of an ideal than a reality.” Sally L. Kitch, professor of women and gender studies, Arizona State University at ASU symposium, “Are we losing our humanity?,” National Press Club, September 7, 2012.

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

At least one college professor is looking at the Chicago teacher’s strike with envy.

George Washington University is mandating diversity training for campus groups.

In defending Obamacare, an academic may be missing the obvious, like giving the law credit for what was already in place.

The want ads of the last Chronicle of Higher Education in August feature 15 pages of faculty jobs, 9 pages of administrative positions and another 3 of “executive positions.” Aren’t we getting a bit bureaucratic?

The Department of Education thinks it has found out what is wrong with American higher education—not enough extracurricular activities, specifically, not enough political ones.

When a private corporation gives out inaccurate information, its’ business generally suffers one way or the other. When a university does it, the school may drop a place in the U. S. News rankings.

Apparently, at Carleton College, it was global warming before it wasn’t.