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“By pretending to inject a position located in between the right and the left, multilingual American literature studies attempted to ally themselves with an ostensibly neutral position,” a Rutgers professor admitted at the Modern Language Association convention.

The recent Shakespeare panel at the 2007 Modern Language Association (MLA) convention, ironically titled “Shakesqueer,” featured four queer theorists presenting articles soon to be published by the notoriously liberal Duke University press.

Larry P. Arnn, president of Hillsdale College in Michigan is looking for a way to put morality back into America’s classrooms, a goal he believes the Department of Education has abandoned.

Those who argue that colleges and universities lack standards may be incorrect but only technically.

Art History Professor Christopher Reed offered his own unique conception of pleasure in the workplace by highlighting the social virtues of homosexual references in the television sitcom Will & Grace and a YouTube video titled “Shoes.”

Largely avoiding discussions of students’ academic freedom, the panel argues that, especially among politicized subjects, professors’ academic freedom is threatened by student evaluations, scarce tenure, and even their own professional code of ethics.

Human-rights activists would likely be displeased to hear that important massacres and purges may never make the history books as genocide because of political pressures during the 1948 U.N. Genocide Convention.

In this uncertain time of global conflict, some professors believe it is time to teach students to reevaluate and deconstruct America’s real enemies—conservatives, science, democracy, and capitalism.

In this uncertain time of global conflict, some professors believe it is time to teach students to reevaluate and deconstruct America’s real enemies—conservatives, science, democracy, and capitalism.

At the Independent Women’s Forum at the Marriot on December 5, 2007, panelists from business and academic circles identified the most significant challenges facing America and suggested rational, free-market policies to enhance U.S. competitiveness in the global economy.

A closer analysis of the 2006 PISA results reveals mixed results about the United States’ global competitiveness in science and math.

With the recent Russian economic boom, many Russians now see Putin as their Franklin D. Roosevelt.