Faculty Lounge Tuition Increases Swallow Up Financial Aid Packages Spencer Irvine July 14, 2015 Two-thirds of financial aid packages are swallowed up by tuition increases. Federal Reserve Bank study finds.
Perspectives Tragedy of U.S. History Judy Russell On February 17th, an education bill was passed by the Oklahoma State House of Representatives Education Committee to “defund the…
Faculty Lounge Outrage over Historical Figures, Names should Add Woodrow Wilson to the list Spencer Irvine A Portland, Oregon high school teacher says that Woodrow Wilson’s name should be removed from the high school he teaches…
Faculty Lounge Missouri Universities in Trouble as One Buys $1.4 Million Golf Course, Other Pays Chelsea Clinton $65,000 for Half-Hour Speech Spencer Irvine July 13, 2015 Uh, talk about wasteful spending. A half-hour speech netted a $65,000 payout to Chelsea Clinton and a $1.4 million golf…
Faculty Lounge Displaying the Confederate Flag should be a Hate Crime, says Professor Spencer Irvine Seriously, a hate crime for waving a flag? Well, the professor does teach in Massachusetts, so no worrying about local…
Events, Perspectives Community Colleges Pay for the Tofu Spencer Irvine President Barack Obama’s latest education initiative is #FreeCommunityCollege for American students, but it brings up the question, will it make…
Faculty Lounge New Jersey Lawmaker Proposes Lottery System to Pay Off Student Loan Debt Spencer Irvine July 12, 2015 Only in New Jersey, as Campus Reform reported: “There may be a new way to pay off student debt in…
Faculty Lounge The Next Liz Warren? Professor Busted for Claiming Native American Ancestry Spencer Irvine Elizabeth Warren, meet Andrea Smith.
Faculty Lounge SCOTUS to Hear Affirmative Action Case from Texas a 2nd Time Spencer Irvine July 11, 2015 The Fisher v. The University of Texas at Austin case will be heard a second time before the Supreme Court.
Faculty Lounge Johns Hopkins’ Proposed Ban of Chick-Fil-A meets Counter Petition Spencer Irvine To counter the ban, a student has begun to circulate a petition on Johns Hopkins campus in Baltimore, Maryland.
Faculty Lounge Satirical “Murder Free Zone” Protest Draws Ire of Portland State Administrators Spencer Irvine July 10, 2015 Portland State University administrators were not pleased by the satirical protest, which mocks the concept of gun-free zones in the…
Faculty Lounge Marco Rubio says if He’s President, He’ll Bust the Higher Ed “Cartel” Spencer Irvine The College Fix reported: “Today’s colleges and universities are like early-America textile artisans who tried to fight the “power loom,”…
