Faculty Lounge No More Safe Spaces at Washington State University, Suggests State Rep. Spencer Irvine December 23, 2015 Campus Reform reported: Inspired by a story originally reported by Campus Reform, a state representative in Washington has introduced legislation…
Faculty Lounge College Students Can’t be Trusted with Concealed Carry due to Alcohol, Depression Spencer Irvine Via Campus Reform: According to several House Democrats, college students cannot be trusted to carry concealed firearms because of their…
Faculty Lounge Omnibus Bill Approves Dept of Education’s Overreach Spencer Irvine December 22, 2015 The Republicans caved on the omnibus spending bill, which empowered the overreach of the Department of Education on college campuses.
Faculty Lounge Oxford University Removes Plaque of Cecil Rhodes of Rhodes Scholarship Fame Spencer Irvine It was all due to Rhodes’ colonialist views, say activists and students.
Faculty Lounge Rutgers Ditched Black Feminism Course on Beyonce? Spencer Irvine That’s the accusation of an adjunct professor who had taught the course before.
Perspectives Good News on Global Warming Malcolm A. Kline It turns out that there may be textbooks that chronicle global warming as something other than an environmental catastrophe and…
Faculty Lounge Harvard Apologizes for Social Justice Placemats that Equated Islamophobia with Refugee Concerns Spencer Irvine Well, at least they apologized instead of condemning the outrage. Harvard Dean of Student Life Stephen Lassoed and Dean of…
Faculty Lounge Update on China’s Detention of Labor Activists Spencer Irvine December 21, 2015 Via the AAUP’s Academe Blog, here’s the background: On December 3, authorities detained 20 labor activists in Guangdong Province. Four…
Faculty Lounge Cornell Bans All But Snowflakes from Holiday Decorations Spencer Irvine Snowflakes at Cornell, both for holiday decorations and an apt description of many college administrators and students nowadays.
Perspectives Pros and Cons of Tenure Malcolm A. Kline At year’s end, we thought, looking over copy for 2015, that we could get a snapshot of how tenure works…
Faculty Lounge Ted Cruz Calls Out Parents, College Students for Being ‘Pampered’ Spencer Irvine Well, Ted Cruz is probably right, given recent developments on college campuses.
Faculty Lounge Christian College Under Fire for Suspending Hijab-Wearing Professor for Equating Christianity with Islam Spencer Irvine Wheaton College is under fire for putting one of their professors on leave for comparing the two religions, which by…
