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Professors from Stanford, Brigham Young University and University of Colorado at Boulder claimed that massive open online courses, known as MOOCs, are not a threat to their profession, while simultaneously showing their colleagues how they could get in on the action.

Perhaps one of the unfortunate byproducts of the lumping together of English and History under the rubric “Humanities” is that English professors start to think of themselves as historians. When they try to be, they prove that they are not.

One remarkable facet of disability studies: when the “disabled” actually speak, they do so with greater clarity and less jargon than those who would purport to study them.

When you get right down to it, the institutions that cry the loudest for diversity, particularly in academia, aren’t that diverse themselves.

There is an interesting split on the Left over the Obama Administration’s Common Core education reforms.

Ayn Rand does provide much fodder for academics.

Thus does a student characterize the law of the land in Dubai.

The culture you get at cultural meetings nowadays is of the popular variety.

If you want to know what academics admire most in each other, spend some time listening to them share their enthusiasms.

While the move to make English the official language in the United States grows throughout the U. S., some academics regret that it is the first one in America.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been called many things but he may soon become a business ethics course. Kathleen V. Willis of Indiana University-Purdue University, Columbus, is exploring the possibility of doing so.

Find out what happens when a university lets students have their way with the school Facebook page.