Proving that it’s never too early to sign up new recruits for the cause, the NEA recently offered a $5,000 “Learning and Leadership Grant to two Wisconsin teachers.
Faculty Lounge
Skinny Jeans @ BYU
Rachel Vermillion, a student at Brigham Young University, recently went through an embarrassing experience when she was banned from re-entering her exam center for wearing skinny jeans.
Another Academic Icon Deconstructed
In a departure from traditional classroom fare, Georgetown University students might have to bring “woofers and turntables to class” this semester instead of books, according to the College Fix, which reported that the school is offering an academic course about Rapper Jay-Z.
Want Fries With That?
Apparently the days of students working their way through school at McDonald’s drive-through window are just about numbered.
Generation Gap Updated
In case you were wondering, a writer for American School magazine gave a helpful guide to the way that generations break down these days. According to Kerry L. Roberts:
Free Speech Endangered Again
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) may have actually latched onto a case in which the first amendment rights of a left-wing professor are genuinely at risk.
OWS Goes Uptown
Fresh from Occupying Wall Street, demonstrators are training their sights on the City University of New York which is planning on raising tuition.
The Tenure of OWS
If the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations seen quite un-American, maybe that’s because they are, at least in their point of origin.
HOLIDAY CHEER?
A student publication at a college in Kelowna, British Columbia reported that a local shoe store has an unusual holiday display this year.
WISCONSIN FOR CHRISTMAS
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker may have singlehandedly ignited the 2011 war on Christmas.