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What do they really want?

British researchers recently demonstrated that the works of Shakespeare and Wordsworth are “rocket-boosters” to the brain and provide more therapeutic benefits than self-help books.

Maybe professors need to get out more often.

The Admiral of the Ocean Sea gets deconstructed.

Ayn Rand does provide much fodder for academics.

Thus does a student characterize the law of the land in Dubai.

The culture you get at cultural meetings nowadays is of the popular variety.

If you want to know what academics admire most in each other, spend some time listening to them share their enthusiasms.

At the recent Modern Language Association convention Keith Spencer from Carnegie Mellon University presented his paper “Class, Race and the ‘Common Man’: Interviews with Occupy Pittsburgh” and the results shouldn’t come as a shock to conservatives or anyone else who closely watched the Occupy movement.

While the move to make English the official language in the United States grows throughout the U. S., some academics regret that it is the first one in America.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been called many things but he may soon become a business ethics course. Kathleen V. Willis of Indiana University-Purdue University, Columbus, is exploring the possibility of doing so.

Find out what happens when a university lets students have their way with the school Facebook page.