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 [...]

(AP) HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – A woman opened fire during a biology faculty meeting at the University of Alabama’s Huntsville campus Friday, killing three people and injuring three others, officials said. The shooter was caught outside the Shelby Center, a science building, without incident, according to university spokesman Ray Garner. Local media reported the shooter was a [...]

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 [...]

(Yahoo news) – Radical feminist Mary Daly, the iconoclastic theologian who proclaimed, “I hate the Bible,” and retired from Boston Collegerather than allow men to take her classes, has died. She was 81.
Daly died Sunday of natural causes at Wachusett Manor nursing home in Gardner, Mass., said her longtime friend, Nancy Kelly.
She passed away as a [...]

(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 [...]

“As Horowitz has often said, it doesn’t really matter whether any one specific allegation about liberal bias on campus is true, because we know that something like it is true somewhere or other. And that’s what the hard-core culture warriors of the right believe about universities; there’s nothing you can do, no study you can [...]

(theadvocate) Don Belton, an assistant professor of English at Indiana University and one of the leading African-American voices in academia, was found stabbed to death in his Bloomington, Ind., home Monday, the Associated Press reports. Twenty-five-year-old Michael J. Griffin has admitted to the stabbing, police say.
Griffin reportedly said he stabbed the 53-year-old Belton because the professor [...]

“She has written critically about legal opinions under Bush that addressed the war in Iraq, interrogation methods, a military tribunal system denying certain rights to detainees captured in the war on terrorism and Bush’s use of presidential signing statements to ignore provisions of new law.”
(Indystar.com) The nomination of the Indiana University professor tapped by President [...]

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 [...]