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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.

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.

It might not be seismic, but there is a shift in academia away from the faddish and back towards the traditional.

The debate over drilling for natural gas, which has been coined “fracking” by both opponents and supporters, has a new frontier. No, it is not Nebraska or other Midwestern locales, but in upstate New York.

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.

For years we have reported on professors who brag that they have done something worthwhile by taking their students to Cuba.

When literature professors branch out into other fields, the result can be bizarre.

The decades-long push to make English Departments more relevant has only succeeded in marginalizing them.

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.

English majors in America today may be pursuing dubious studies but they also face dim job prospects.

You may think you know Spiderman but wait until you see a panel of experts deconstruct him.

When you compare the masters to modern-day writers, the latter inevitably suffer. Maybe they should, figuratively that is.