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A few weeks ago, the Harvard faculty went off on President Larry Summers because he said there are differences between men and women in math and science. Good thing he left out librarians.

Part 3 of 3 of an exchange about Joe McCarthy’s legacy…

Part 2 of 3 of an exchange about Joe McCarthy’s legacy…

Part 1 of 3 of an exchange about Joe McCarthy’s legacy…

Colleges celebrate the notion that their campuses are a forum for the free expression of ideas. Now while that be a noble goal, from all appearances, that seems to be far from reality today.

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Irvine Valley College and Saddleback College in southern California have decided to end their 14 year old study abroad program in Spain.

The law school of the flagship campus of the UNC system files an amicus brief in a Supreme Court case dealing with a question in the field of public education. The case is decided largely to the law school’s liking. Yet, the UNC system as a whole, and several individual UNC campuses might be in violation of the Court’s ruling.

As an ongoing service to our readers who have not encountered them yet, we provide profiles of college professors whom students may want to avoid.

Campus observations and inanities from around the country. . .

The complete transcript of Harvard prez Lawrence Summers’s speech containing his controversial remarks about gender differences has now been released. But whether this helps or hurts his career is still a matter of opinion.

One of the few genuine academic experts on African Studies has explained the problems that plague that continent, such as famine and civil war, in great clarity in numerous books and articles, but his message has not been particularly welcome in academia.