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Academia has to be the one sector in American life over the past half century in which the portions have become diluted while the costs have gone through the roof.

Apparently, at Carleton College, it was global warming before it wasn’t.

Halloween is not here yet but universities are already channeling Charlie Brown in their eager anticipation of their own Great Pumpkin—green jobs.

A panel discussion was held at the Center for American Progress to discuss the role of the private sector in education on Thursday, May 31.

Apparently even college campuses aren’t providing green jobs anymore.

Ever on the watch for the latest academic buzzwords, we look with curiosity upon the latest offering—sustainable development.

With remedial education becoming more of a trend on college campuses every year and employers complaining that new hires lack basic skills, public schools are naturally pursuing grants that will prepare students for environmental activism.

The danger of exposing academia and government to free enterprise is that the former will corrupt the latter.

There is an old Pennsylvania Dutch proverb that goes, “We grow too soon old and too late smart.” Some colleges still have a youthful outlook.

In a coordinated move by state and Federal officials and advocacy non-profits, Maryland may soon hold preeminent status as the most environmentally friendly state in the nation.

Has higher education become the equivalent of a giant Ponzi scheme? Perhaps.

Those of us who find Teacher Work Days a relatively recent phenomenon, if not an oxymoronic one, can get a bird’s eye view of what they sometimes consist of from an inside account of an educational conference held late last year.