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Waste and funding abuse at Bucknell University might go unreported if not for the staff of The Counterweight.

It is hypocritical for colleges and universities to accept government money while refusing to allow military recruiters on campus, and now it’s also illegal.

An academic take on the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks may be more insightful than it at first appears to be.

A veteran cop and author debunked widespread academic myths about the U. S. military at Accuracy in Academia’s recent Capitol Hill conference.

American colleges and universities can still claim that they are producing more scientists every year but they can juice those numbers by the manner in which they label various academic disciplines as scientific.

While the former foreign secretary for the Taliban attends lectures openly at Yale, ROTC cadets routinely feel compelled to change out of their U. S. military uniforms before returning to class.

Left unspoken in much of the debate over the exploding cost of higher education is the degree to which college and university administrators themselves may be padding their bills.

College catalogues usually don’t come in brown paper wrappers but maybe some of them should.

With one Cornell professor, coming to his conclusions about the Florida recount will improve your grade.

Georgia Tech is being sued for imposing a religious orthodoxy on its students and for an unconstitutional speech code.

When the ABA passes judgment on a law school, it looks at such matters as the size of the library, the teaching load of the faculty, and (of course) the extent to which the school is “diverse.” Whether the classes are taught competently is not directly investigated.

The academic lockout of military recruiters has ended, at least according to the Supreme Court.