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Checking the facts: no racial undertones in King Kong, although the academy may think they exist.

Feminists in academia have many ideas about how to promote feminist activism, but they may not agree on what to call it.

Going back to school at the end of summer vacation, always a bittersweet experience for college students, now, with politically correct reeducation, can be just bitter.

A frequent criticism of current humanities instruction is that it focuses on what to think, rather than how to think. The humanities have become dogmatic and provincial.

When the Ivory Tower attacks something such as the Academic Bill of Rights that author David Horowitz is promoting, it shows, by its very opposition, the need for such a restraint.

The National School Boards Association (NSBA) came up with a list of the top ten things that make public schools exceptional in 2016. See if you can spot any of these in a government school near you: “Modernized career technical education (CTE)” (Do Instagram photos, tweets, facebook updates and the ability to Google oneself count?); […]

What difference, at this point, do any of the recent scandals make? What ties them all together?

Often we find that what is most revealing in covering the higher education beat is what academics reveal about themselves.

The 2011 Modern Language  Association (MLA) Annual Convention featured more than just lectures on language.  One roundtable, entitled “Transmedia Activism,” dealt with both “technocultural innovation” and the more controversial idea of increasing political activism among students.

The events at the University of Delaware follow a common trend among academic institutions, and—despite their shocking nature—fail to surprise those familiar with university-sponsored politically-correct mantras.

The Top Politically inCorrect Words and Phrases for 2005.

In schools throughout the country, “A World of Difference” takes aim at “ageism, heterosexism, ableism and classism”—not to mention Thomas Jefferson.