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College English professors are trying to teach students how to write when some of these same pupils haven’t read much.

One of the unfortunate effects of the interdisciplinary approach to education is that it encourages English professors to regard themselves as astute on subjects on which they are clearly not, such as economics.

Another religiously affiliated university trying to be diplomatic may be in danger of becoming Catholic in Name Only (CINO).

In their unguarded moments, college professors say the darndest things.

The academic left has painted itself into a peculiar corner. They urge the rejection of traditional grammar as chauvinistic, or, more frequently, “hegemonic.” Unfortunately for them, they eventually have to read papers by students who have previously been taught by teachers who also share this outlook.

Alarmed at the very idea that military recruiters can make direct appeals to high school students, a prominent anti-war academic is making some misleading statements of his own.

Learn why Barbie is racist and earn college credit for it at Occidental College and Duke University.

Who is really attending the yearly MLA convention?

When yet another distinguished (read, tenured) academic emerges from the Ivory Tower to defend institutions of higher learning from their, mostly, external, critics, that professor usually proves to be the latest poster child for what is wrong with American colleges and universities today.

College professors say the darndest things.

College professors say the darndest things.

Creative new approaches by professors to instill learning in college students are reaching them in unique ways.