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A pair of Harvard professors are resurrecting the work of an African-American writer so politically incorrect that she was virtually bypassed in the rush to inaugurate variations of black studies programs—Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston.

It turns out that Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez could have had a much closer relationship with the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) if the former head of the AAUP had his druthers.

College administrators continually cry poor, particularly to reporters and congressional representatives, but the federal government lays more largesse on them than most of us have seen.

A British journalist points out that what you don’t know about it can hurt you.

This is a hard list to narrow down, particularly since many of them wind up as courses.

The number of genuine intellectuals in academia goes down every year while the ranks of ersatz scholars grow.

Wait until you see the latest cause that Noam Chomsky and other academic luminaries are rallying around.

In effect, the paper’s subsidiary has been getting students deep in federal debt for courses that produce very few good jobs.  Now we find out that Kaplan has allegedly been discriminating against minorities in the process.

Now that the President is poised to sign the repeal of the ban on homosexuals serving in the U. S. military, academics are prepared to welcome the armed forces they have banned from their campuses with open arms, at least metaphorically.

It turns out that John Wayne movies might be more accurate than American history textbooks.

Is the Washington Post’s for-profit educational subsidiary not only carrying the loss-amassing institution but also aggressively recruiting veterans with hype and glory?

When it comes to genuine crises, the elites are usually the last to know.