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The view of violent uprisings in the Middle East, and collateral threats in the United States, is a bit different in the Ivory Tower than it is closer to the action.

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

The fiftieth anniversary of the seminal book Silent Spring was bound to inspire at least one tribute from academia.

Here’s how you get read out of academia for unorthodoxy.

Ninety  Georgetown  faculty members and administrators have gone public with a letter attacking Republican vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan’s budget proposal but the bill of particulars in the missive does not match up to the content of his plan.

The reaction to movie icon Clint Eastwood’s “debate” with an unoccupied stool representing President Obama at the Republican convention has, predictably, extended to the faculty lounge.

Even on the economic issues that underpin the Occupiers’ angst, it is difficult not to notice that while businesses remain boarded up from coast to coast, government agencies do not.

Academics frequently take we unlettered folk to task for trivializing serious issues. It turns out that they can take us to school on how to do just that.

Academics are hardly shy about offering businesses advice but they go ballistic when industry deigns to return the favor.

A college president actually wrote a book critical of the president.

A little bit of broadcasting history which you are unlikely to get in a broadcast journalism class.

If the federal government’s new education standards are so common, why have  few people seen them?