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The Collegiate Campaign Trail
As the presidential campaign heats up, the two Democratic contenders—Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are shoring up their base on college campuses, areas mostly off-limits for Republicans.
60s Needle in Academic Haystack
Finding a front-page 60s radical four decades after the fact is a bit like finding a needle in an academic haystack: You just have to stumble upon the institution of higher learning that the professional protestor sought shelter in.
HBCUs Fail Title IX
Compliance with Title IX which can even be a struggle for some of the larger colleges and universities in the country is a particular problem for the nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU’s) according to a new study released this week by the College Sports Council .
Science and Race
Identifying race as a source of disease may seem like a practice from the Jim Crow era, resolved after scandals like the Tuskegee Syphilis Study; however, current studies linking genetics with disease could have similar implications for race, according to a report recently published by the Center for American Progress.
Deconstructing Universal (Conservative?) Values
In this uncertain time of global conflict, some professors believe it is time to teach students to reevaluate and deconstruct America’s real enemies—conservatives, science, democracy, and capitalism.
Deconstructing Universal (Conservative?) Values
In this uncertain time of global conflict, some professors believe it is time to teach students to reevaluate and deconstruct America’s real enemies—conservatives, science, democracy, and capitalism.
Film Clips
Outgoing American Journalism Center intern Heyecan Veziroglu reviews two movies sure to make the rounds of college campuses and towns.
Revisionist Reaganomics
Academics trying to rewrite the Reagan years may need magicians’ mirrors because the actual data don’t support the spin that these “public scholars” would dearly like to put on the 80s.
Thanksgiving Backlog
Like all of you, we know that personally we have much to be thankful for. Oddly, what we have to be thankful for professionally is the politically correct colleges and universities that supply us with an unending stream of copy.