FUNNY BUSINESS IN ACADEME ...

Of all the history departments in the United States, the one at Brooklyn College was at the top of my list last year for scandal in the profession. It won Miss Uncollegiality at the Miss AHA contest in Atlantic City. It did so by using the criteria of collegiality to do the dirty uncollegial deed. Apparently having learned nothing from the experience, administrators at BC are back at it and Erin O'Connor's Critical Mass has the story.