Faculty Lounge Harvard Graduate Students want to Unionize Spencer Irvine April 15, 2015 Uh, what? Harvard graduate students in the university’s department of arts and sciences want to form a union. Why? Campus Reform…
Faculty Lounge Teacher Reinstated after Suspension over Facebook Post Spencer Irvine April 14, 2015 The media still calls the teacher’s remarks on Facebook “anti-gay,” when it was actually religious doctrine advocating for traditional marriage…
Perspectives The Really Lost Generation Malcolm A. Kline If the raccoon coat-wearing youth of the 1920s really were the lost generation, what would you call millennials? Generation Opportunity,…
Faculty Lounge Another School Postpones Screening of ‘American Sniper’ after Muslim Students Complain Spencer Irvine As Campus Reform reported: “Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York postponed its screening of American Sniper, scheduled to…
Faculty Lounge Taxpayers Hurt by Tax-Exempt Endowments Spencer Irvine April 13, 2015 As the Chronicle of Higher Education reported: “Most of the benefits, they say, result because endowments are exempt from capital-gains…
Perspectives Head Start Still Unfinished Malcolm A. Kline Try as they might, when proponents of early federally funded pre-school education ala Head Start try to make the case…
Faculty Lounge University of Michigan Screening of ‘American Sniper’ goes well Spencer Irvine No protests or counter-protests occurred, but police were stationed outside. As the credits rolled, the filled-to-capacity room (a 150-person capacity)…
Faculty Lounge For-Profit Online College will Close Spencer Irvine April 12, 2015 Jones International University, based in Colorado since its inception in 1993, will close its doors. From 2011 to 2014, reports…
Faculty Lounge Professors Want Students to Fight Against White Privilege, not to just Acknowledge It Spencer Irvine Fight The Man! This is what it seems like professors are telling their students nowadays. But, this story is one…
Perspectives Charter Schools in Blue States: It Works Malcolm A. Kline More evidence indicates that school choice works, even in so-called blue states. The Boston-based Pioneer Institute undertook a study of…
Faculty Lounge North Dakota Bill could Protect Student Journalists from Censorship Spencer Irvine April 11, 2015 North Dakota becomes the 8th state to pass a bill like this, protecting student journalists from censorship.
Faculty Lounge U.S. Colleges are Restricting America’s Freedom of Speech Spencer Irvine Why are colleges eagerly restricting their students’ free speech rights? Great question posed by Ed Feulner, former head of the…
