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Noted academics seem to view the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations as a means of recapturing the 1960s, particularly if they missed the latter decade on the first go-round.

The links between tenured radicals and Occupy Wall Street are not hard to find.

The latest academic to argue that academia drives economic growth offers a long list of inventions spawned by universities but she might be missing a key ingredient.

Dr. Walter Williams, a distinguished economics professor at George Mason University, noted recently that taxpayers have an imperfect understanding of the academic rot that exists at our nation’s colleges, adding that “what distinguishes one college from the other is the magnitude of that rot.”

America’s school boards want more money from American taxpayers but they don’t want to be told what to do with it.

Scores in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina have jumped considerably at a time when the majority of the city’s public schools have become charter schools.

A Mid East Studies professor who we have covered is in the news again, and once again the subject of investigations surrounding claims that his attitudes towards Israel could be labeled discriminatory.

We’ve actually found a Middle East studies professor who provides valuable information and insights.

What colleges do to donors takes “biting the hand that feeds you” to a whole new level of tetanus.

Academia, in the person of the formidable John K. Wilson, has found our 100 arguments against tenure wanting, to put it mildly.

Noted scholar John K. Wilson objected to our quarterly review of professors we have covered.

Here’s the rest of our arguments for tenure, so far this year.