Ivory Tower Blogging

University of Pennsylvania English Professor Erin O'Conner has been described as one of the first scholars who staked a claim in the blogosphere. Some two years ago an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education described her blog Critical Mass as advancing a conservative critique of "grade inflation, sensitivity training, and speech codes."

So says Professor O'Connor "... the blog tracks moments of monumental malfeasance on campus--whether administrative, pedagogical, or scholarly; practical or ideological; individual or collective--and to reflect on what they mean for the future of education, intellect, free inquiry, and philosophical diversity in the U.S."

Lofty stuff.