The universities said it! Arthur provides a (thinkable) scenario, via the University of Central Tasmania.

The BBC Radio 4 comedy-drama "A Higher Education" was written in 1999 to present a satire of a dysfunctional and cash-strapped university (Northfield) led by the egotistical and amoral Head of Drama, Don Crookfield (played by Rik Mayall). For those of us passionately engaged in the provision of higher education today, the satire also…

In a satire of current curricula offerings, the author describes such courses as "Futuristic Scientology,""Non-Knowledge and Unheard-of Problems," and "The Heights and Depths of Breadth." (RW)

Describes a study in which some graduate and undergraduate students failed to distinguish a spoof from serious reports of research. (MKM)

Satirizes college English instruction, specifically "catchy" composition programs and the relevant grant awards and job placement of graduate students. (JM)

Humorously examines the presumption of undergraduate course titles, suggesting that they are not invitational and do not reflect the interests of the students. Offers an alternative list of courses based on the notion that relevance is determined not by course content but by the application of that content. (MAB)

Updates the list of classic excuses students make to teachers when their paper is late--this time in reference to the mishaps that may occur with a computer. (CRH)

A facetious private detective story embroidered with literary interpretation, autobiography, logical positivism, David Hume on personal identity, and "The Happy Hooker." (RL)

Shows that while student humor has definite pedagogical usefulness in teaching the conventional academic modes of discourse and language, it also can become a vehicle of subversion. (TB)

This tongue-in-cheek article is designed to help those people who have no interest in studying, do not like studying, and have no intention of studying. This method is directed to students who live in a dormitory. (Author)

A study involving 59 undergraduate speech communication students investigated relationships between intelligence, understanding of editorial satire, and appreciation of satire. The students were asked to read three satirical essays and then to pick one of five statements that best described the thesis as intended by the author. Then each satire…

Presents a "Bard's eye" view of higher education using Shakespeare's veiled references to express some faculty and administrators' perspectives on people, processes, and places in the profession. (RS)

A satirical essay that purports to describe a meeting of an educational foundation deciding how to spend a grant to improve writing instruction. (TJ)

This paper traces the interest by academic popular culture scholars in the films of the American slapstick comedy group of the 1930s and 1940s, "The Three Stooges." Noting that between 1990 and 1995 at least 17 scholarly articles have been presented at various popular culture association meetings, the paper touches upon the universal and…

Satire is a genre long extant if not especially beloved in human history. Practitioners of the art claim the intent to persuade and educate through their works. Many quantitative studies have tested the persuasive effects of satire. In research on persuasion, A.D. Annis (1939) compared the effects of editorials and editorial cartoons and concluded…