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Christopher G. Kennedy, chairman of the University of Illinois Board of Trustees, led the effort to deny Bill Ayers the title of professor emeritus because Ayers had written a book dedicated in part to the killer of his father, Robert F. Kennedy.

So entrenched is the belief in global warming in academia that even when critiquing its adherents, academics still feel compelled to pay it homage.

Unemployment may be at record levels but academics are doing their level best to diversify a dwindling work force.

While the perception of conservative students is that they are constantly being shouted down and/or silenced on their left-leaning campuses, that is apparently not always the case.

For some reason, groups that gain the most in clout look upon themselves as put upon, literally.

Apparently “a new generation of law students and graduates is rising in protest over the failure of law schools to give them honest accountings of the job market and their professional prospects.”

For some reason, some college administrators don’t seem to think that Mafia Wars and Farmville are very scholarly activities.

This weekend the U. S. Constitution might be read more frequently in the United States than it has been in American public schools in the past half century.

A Democratic mayor’s loss could mean an end to the first real school reform Washington, D. C. ever knew.

The September 16, 2010 Accuracy in Academia author’s night has been cancelled due to complications.

There is an old Pennsylvania Dutch proverb that goes, “We grow too soon old and too late smart.” Some colleges still have a youthful outlook.

Although it may be a minority viewpoint among scholars, some intellectuals do not think that talk show host Glenn Beck’s criticism of President Woodrow Wilson goes far enough.