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Service Learning For Elites
If you thought service learning involved helping the unfortunate, you have no idea how expansively universities define the concept of “needy:”union organizing and faculty associations make the grade.
Axis of Inaccuracy
One thing that journalism and the humanities have in common is that people don’t like either of them. Yet another thing they have in common is that journalists and English professors can’t figure out why.
Baby Steps Towards Traditional
It might not be seismic, but there is a shift in academia away from the faddish and back towards the traditional.
Searching for Budget Cuts
The Left frequently accuses the Right of pursuing phantoms. Nevertheless, the political Left has pursued a few elusive targets of its own, particularly on the academic side.
Castro’s Useful American Students
For years we have reported on professors who brag that they have done something worthwhile by taking their students to Cuba.
Lit Prof’s Economic Vision
When literature professors branch out into other fields, the result can be bizarre.
Professors Study Funny Papers
The decades-long push to make English Departments more relevant has only succeeded in marginalizing them.
Chief Illiniwek’s Revenge?
Evidently the publicity that surrounded the removal of team mascot Chief Illiniwek five years ago only whetted the University of Illinois’ appetite for more controversy.
Humanities: Bridge to Nowhere
English majors in America today may be pursuing dubious studies but they also face dim job prospects.