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Can one make a carbon footprint while en route to a convention where environmentalism is the dominant faith?

It’s that time of year again. Accuracy in Academia is off to cover the Modern Language Association’s annual convention. This is the largest gathering of English professors on the planet.

Robert Pacquette, a history professor at Hamilton College, recently wrote that although he’s a traditional historian who teaches the principles of limited government and respect for private property, he doesn’t think that those facts register with today’s students.

People are still saying wise things, although usually off campus. In collecting the wisdom from the past year, that’s where we found most of the sagacious sayings.

Often we find that what is most revealing in covering the higher education beat is what academics reveal about themselves.

Here is the first part of Accuracy in Academia’s compendium of current wisdom for 2012.

We’ve been posting regular updates on the unprecedented run of Obama Administration veterans who have decamped for academe but the University of Chicago just landed a very big one.

Private corporations and foundations can do whatever they want but one would think that the bigger ones would do a bit more research before endowing politically correct administrators with their prestige.

A Constitutional law professor at Georgetown claims the Constitution is useless because nobody follows it.  “When you see how the…

Martin Kich of Wright State University has assigned blame for the student debt crisis to a variety of factors but missed an obvious one—colleges and universities themselves.

The venerable NAACP has issued its first call to arms for education in nearly a decade.

For years, intellectuals—particularly the academic variety—have proclaimed their solidarity with “the working class” but for one of them, this self-identification goes much deeper.