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Some social scientists seem to have a hard time distinguishing between the social sciences and hard science.

When academics cross the line into advocacy they risk violating their own oft-stated goal of illuminating current controversies, such as immigration.

Academics are trying out a new way to make peace with American icons, namely by turning them into liberals long after their death. Such seems to be Johns Hopkins University (JHU) professor Richard Halpern’s approach to the art of Norman Rockwell.

America’s first openly gay governor becomes the latest Democratic officeholder not to let the revolving door into academia hit him on the way out of elected office.

Academics trying to rewrite the Reagan years may need magicians’ mirrors because the actual data don’t support the spin that these “public scholars” would dearly like to put on the 80s.

Health care administrators and those who teach them try to fathom the low esteem they are held in without much success.

The Ivory Triangle of media, academic and political elites who push America left is gearing up for another full court press to the port side.

The Virginia Tech massacre was by no means the first murderous rampage at a university in the state.

This year, as ever, campuses nationwide are sponsoring or supporting May Day demonstrations on behalf of immigrants in America who may or may not be here legally. Federal officials charged with enforcing U. S. immigration law, meanwhile, are sending up their own distress signals.

While many reacted to the Virginia Tech massacre with calls for more gun control, an NYU sociologist put the blame on the failure of schools in the “socialization” of student bodies.

Technology buffs in the city of Brotherly Love are taking the School Without Walls concept into what may be the second-to-last frontier at Philadelphia’s Science Leadership Academy (SLA).

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and U.S. Senator Barack Obama are first choice among 18-24 year-olds for President in 2008 according to the Harvard Institute of Politics 12th Biannual Youth Survey on Politics and Public Service.