Perspectives Academic Largely Ignores Benefits of Intact Families Malcolm A. Kline January 8, 2016 That intact families are more economically solvent than fractured ones has long been observed outside of academe. Arguably, as with…
Faculty Lounge In Atlanta, Gumbo Protests Take Shape Spencer Irvine An interesting read on the ‘gumbo’ movement of college students, who have a variety of concerns that they are protesting.
Faculty Lounge Botched Dorm Residence Transition Puts Students in Danger in New York’s SUNY-Broome Spencer Irvine January 7, 2016 The residence hall’s housing director resigned due to a scandal where it was discovered he was sleeping with one of…
Faculty Lounge FAA Hit with Lawsuit over Diversity-over-Quality Emphasis in Application and Hiring Processes Spencer Irvine Mysteriously, qualified applicants were suddenly ruled ineligible in the FAA hiring process. Turns out that administrators in the FAA were…
Perspectives Rutgers Faculty Opposes “Academic Inquiry” Malcolm A. Kline Academics generally resist most attempts to invade their sanctum. Nevertheless, although they may share an elastic definition of “scholarship,” they…
Faculty Lounge Former Amherst College Lecturer Accuses Supervisor of Trying to Coerce Her to Sleep with Students to Increase Enrollment Spencer Irvine January 6, 2016 It really sounds like a dispute over her firing as a lecturer at the college and declining enrollment in their…
Perspectives Questioning Academic Authority on Guns Malcolm A. Kline Maybe it’s time we revived that phrase “question authority.” “The president’s ironclad confidence in the conclusiveness of the science, and therefore the…
Faculty Lounge USC Professor: White Men Can’t Police Their Imagination, Leads to Black Mens’ Deaths Spencer Irvine Claudia Rankine, an English professor at the University of Southern California, was interviewed on one of her poems where she…
Faculty Lounge American University Pushes Sororities to Blacklist Fraternities which are being Investigated Spencer Irvine January 5, 2016 The College Fix has more on this: It’s no secret that colleges are itching to punish fraternities for the slightest…
Perspectives Still Halloween at Yale Malcolm A. Kline Academics are still using the Halloween costume controversy at Yale as a teachable moment. One wonders what they will learn….
Faculty Lounge Missouri Lawmakers Call for Mizzou Professor Melissa Click’s Firing Spencer Irvine She was the professor who asked for ‘muscle’ to remove a student reporter from the quad on campus during a…
Faculty Lounge Alabama is Drug Testing On-Campus College Fraternities Spencer Irvine Via Campus Reform: The University of Alabama (UA) has allegedly been testing on-campus fraternity brothers on a “quiet” basis, according…
