Perspectives Anti-Semitism On Campus Gets Real Malcolm A. Kline August 24, 2016 Usually university officials go into overdrive to solve a reported hate crime. Apparently they become more deliberate when the alleged…
Faculty Lounge Cal State-Long Beach Backs Down on Moratorium on Student Groups Spencer Irvine FIRE filed a public records request regarding the university’s moratorium and was critical of the university’s lack of transparency on why…
Perspectives Do colleges + universities=economic growth? Malcolm A. Kline August 23, 2016 Academics have been arguing for decades that colleges and universities are engines of economic growth. Now they seem to have…
Faculty Lounge Porn Star Instructs UCLA Students on Sex Spencer Irvine No, this isn’t a joke: “Jessica Drake teaches modern sex ed to rousing ovation in UCLA,” declares a press release…
Faculty Lounge Johns Hopkins Expert Advocates for Limiting Childbirths to Save the World from Climate Change Spencer Irvine From the College Fix: In a Thursday story at NPR.org, Travis Rieder of Johns Hopkins’ Berman Institute of Bioethics says…
Faculty Lounge Black Lives Matter Activist DeRay Mckesson is Now a Politics Fellow at University of Chicago Spencer Irvine Activist Mckesson is now a politics fellow at the University of Chicago. Talk about a nice gig for an activist:…
Faculty Lounge University of Vermont to Host an All-White ‘White Privilege’ Retreat Spencer Irvine Um, this sounds like a terrible and exclusionary idea: The “Examining White Privilege: A Retreat for Undergraduate Students Who Self-Identify…
Faculty Lounge How American Higher Education Turned into a False Promise Spencer Irvine From our friend George Leef at the Pope Center: One is the proliferation of college graduates who can only find…
Perspectives Federalizing the MLA Malcolm A. Kline August 22, 2016 Colleges and universities are forever feeling shortchanged by taxpayers. They needn’t worry. For one thing, they are far richer than…
Faculty Lounge UGA Dean says a Monica Lewinsky Joke could Encourage Sexual Harassment Spencer Irvine After an University of Georgia professor accidentally sent a pun-filled and off-color joke about Monica Lewinsky to a student listserv…
Faculty Lounge Global Warming Advocates Update Doom-and-Gloom Olympics Scenarios Spencer Irvine Great reporting by The College Fix on this, where academics updated their predictions that by 2085, not many cities will…
Faculty Lounge Study finds School Choice Saves Money for Public Education Spencer Irvine An interesting study, indeed: The study, a working paper published by the University of Arkansas Department of Education Reform, specifically…
