A researcher from duke university, Tim Tyson, was arrested and charged with second degree trespassing according to wral.com for his actions of a Wake County Board of Education meeting Tuesday night.
Tyson was one of four people charged with second-degree trespassing after they interrupted the board’s meeting, locked arms and sang songs.
Rev. William Barber, president of [...]

Newswise — The environmental community is voicing concern after President Obama suggested Congress might move an energy bill forward without a carbon-trading system in place.
According to Rafael Reuveny, a professor at the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs in Bloomington, the entire negotiation in Congress is “politics as usual” and meant to stall [...]

(Daily 49er) In the past week, psychology professor Kevin MacDonald had his class interrupted by an organization claiming his views and recent involvement in political organization the American Third Option party are seen as racist and anti-Semitic.
MacDonald, a tenured professor at Cal State Long Beach, has been making headlines on the matter since he was [...]

(Dailyliberal) Charles Sturt University’s climate change policy expert Professor Clive Hamilton has labelled the NSW Farmers’ Association’s call for a Royal Commission into the science that is driving the Federal Government’s policies on climate change as a “political diversion.”
Prof Hamilton said he did not doubt the science behind climate change and it was only for [...]

Let’s see what Professor of Political Science and holder of the Avice Saint Chair of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley Paul Pierson has to say to students at UC Berkley.
Here are some highlights from an interview regarding Pierson’s book Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy extracted [...]

(wfu.edu) THE ‘NEW ECONOMY’ IS NOTHING NEW – David Coates, Worrell Professor of Anglo-American Studies at Wake Forest University, says that the argument about the United States moving into a ‘new economy’ can be overstated. “Yes, the federal government is now heavily involved in ownership in sectors not normally so treated, such as the financial [...]

(Pressconnects.com) More than $2.2 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds are pouring into Binghamton University research projects.
For many researchers, the funding will help them hire or retain employees and purchase equipment.
The funding includes:

(Salon) Officials say dozens of people occupying a campus building at the University of California, Berkeley, in a protest over fee hikes and budget cuts have been arrested.
UC Berkeley spokesman Dan Mogulof told KGO-TV late Friday afternoon more than 40 people, at least some of them students, had been arrested and the protest appeared to [...]

(AZcentral.com) A Baylor University economics professor told lawmakers on Monday that Arizona’s private-school tax-credit scholarship program saved the state $44 million to $186 million last year.
Charles North’s analysis offered a substantially higher savings estimate for the state thanThe Arizona Republic’s estimate of $8.3 million over a period of nine years, published in an article last [...]

(Thetranscript.com) A visiting professor at Williams College was suspended on Tuesday after pleading guilty to charges of fraud in federal court earlier this week.
Ernest B. Moore, who taught political science under the name of Bernard Moore at the college, plead guilty to one count of student aid fraud, one count of bank fraud, and one [...]