Faculty Lounge Virginia Students Locked Out of Tuition Hike Meeting Spencer Irvine April 4, 2015 As the Campus Reform reported: “As the University of Virginia announced a plan to increase tuition by 11 percent—one of…
Faculty Lounge Minority Students Upset at Apple for Lack of Diverse Emoji’s Spencer Irvine Seriously, this is SOMETHING?! ‘Emojis aren’t diverse enough’ is an issue or focus of student outrage? Come on. How about…
Events, Perspectives Colleges Eliminating Self-Esteem Courses Malcolm A. Kline Something that should give would-be education reformers pause but probably won’t: when ephemeral education fads finally come in for much-needed…
Faculty Lounge Amid Budget Crisis, Cal State Long Beach Opens Illegal Immigrant Center Spencer Irvine April 3, 2015 As The College Fix reported: “There are a lot of problems at Cal State University Long Beach. Parking is a…
Faculty Lounge Dixie State University says Students Can’t Criticize Presidents Spencer Irvine A lawsuit was filed by the Young Americans for Liberty group, who was prevented from expressing free speech by way of…
Faculty Lounge Jewish Professor Put on Leave after Blasting Hamas Spencer Irvine Uh, how is this insensitive? Hamas is a terrorist organization and Israel is not. Simple as that, right? According to…
Events, Perspectives Elites Push Physician-Assisted Suicide Malcolm A. Kline Overlooked in the media coverage of and academic debate about physician-assisted suicide: it’s not the people most likely to receive it…
Faculty Lounge Colleges Can’t Hide Info Behind Student Privacy Laws, Illinois Says Spencer Irvine April 2, 2015 The state of Illinois Attorney General says that their state universities cannot keep hiding behind student privacy laws to keep…
Perspectives Culture War Not So 90s Malcolm A. Kline In his first campaign for the presidency, then-Senator Barack Obama, D-Ill, declared that the phrase “culture war” was “so 90s.”…
Faculty Lounge Israel Divestment Student Vote Passed in Close Vote Spencer Irvine Even the university’s chapter of the Red Cross voted in favor of divesting from Israel, but the national organization said…
Perspectives Adam Smith Rocks! Malcolm A. Kline There’s a reason you don’t see many Adam Smith ties in the faculty lounge. “Adam Smith believed there are few…
Faculty Lounge Conservative Faculty at risk in Media-Fueled Outrage in RFRA Spat Spencer Irvine April 1, 2015 Will universities attack (i.e. fire) conservative faculty for their conservative views, in light of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) backlash…
