by Con Chapman Freelance Writer CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Harvard University yesterday announced a shift in tactics in its war on fraudulent work by faculty, saying it will allow professors to make stuff up in order to deter them from plagiarism. “Plagiarism is a liability because people sue when you steal from them,” said President Drew Gilpin [...]

by Diana Senechal Freelance Writer Binghamton, New York—At Novum Organum College’s annual faculty meeting, President Murphy Murgatroyd announced that 100 percent of the college’s materials and teaching methods would be research-based by 2014. “This means everything you do must be backed by science,” said Murgatroyd. “We won’t use a seminar format, for instance, just because [...]

by Con Chapman Freelance Writer DANVILLE, Illinois. It is a problem that bedevils colleges across the country, with some saying it threatens the future of higher education in America. “If this school was a business, it’d be in Chapter 11,” says Ted Clavell, a trustee of Upper Peninsula College in Keweenaw, Michigan, who has given [...]

by I.M. Knott-Tawkin Freelance Writer “There is absolutely, positively nothing funny about being an adjunct,” says Kontingent “Konnie” J. Klown, who has gone through life with an unusual name coined by her parents, itinerant academics. And Klown’s recently formed group, “Adjuncts Are Amazing University Psychics, See?” AAAUPS (not to be confused with AAUP, AAA, or [...]

by Diana Senechal Freelance Writer When Sam Spivender, CEO of Temporarium University Library, noticed that no students collaborated in the new ten million dollar Collaborative Learning Center, he did what any rational library CEO would do: hired twenty collaborative cheerleaders, one for each collaborative pod, at a rate of fifteen hundred dollars per cheerleader per [...]

As new information is revealed daily about the scandal at Penn State, questions have been raised at other institutions about how much power campus authorities actually hold. The Journal of College Administration has released 2010 data from their extensive study of power at different types of institutions. We have printed two particularly compelling charts below. [...]

by Con Chapman Freelance Writer BOSTON, Mass. Charged by his bosses with drawing more viewers to Channel 2, the Boston public television outlet that gave birth to such favorites as Julia Child’s “The French Chef,” Jeremy Korg found himself with a case of producer’s block. “I would sit on the couch, channel-surfing back and forth [...]

McGinley College is reeling after officials woefully misjudged its enrollment figures for fall faculty egos. “We hadn’t anticipated the spike beyond our normal ego quota of 5.6%,” said Chancellor Julia Tenny. “The unexpectedly large 10% ego inflation has created dilemmas we hadn’t imagined.” The college now scrambles to find larger office spaces with prettier furniture, [...]

Attendance in Professor Randall Everett’s Biology in Motion seminar has skyrocketed as students await Hannah Kearns’ historic 700th consecutive answer to Professor Everett’s questions. “I usually sit in the back so I can avoid Dr. Everett’s boring questions,” said Kearns’ classmate Jacob Roy. “Lately I’ve been sitting closer so I can be there to witness [...]

  Grammar professor Marjorie Kitt was fired from her position last week amongst allegations that she had consistently misused quotation marks she drew in the air with her fingers. “It’s was an offense to our department,” explained Dean of English Corrine Samuels. “She put quotations marks around seemingly everything without regard to legitimate rules of [...]