Faculty Lounge University of New Mexico Used Dead Babies’ Brain Tissue for Dissections at Summer Camp Spencer Irvine August 27, 2016 From the College Fix: University of New Mexico’s dean of the School of Medicine has admitted that college staff utilized…
Faculty Lounge University of Chicago Administrator Tells Students that Safe Spaces, Trigger Warnings are Nowhere to be Found Spencer Irvine August 26, 2016 What a stance against the politically correct culture that is often found on college campuses today: John Ellison, Dean of…
Faculty Lounge America’s Higher Education as American Counterculture Spencer Irvine A good read by Peter Lawler on higher education and its relationship to American counterculture.
Faculty Lounge UNC LGBTQ Student Center Director Leaves to Go to Duke in Protest of House Bill 2 Spencer Irvine To each their own, but it sounds like House Bill 2 is still riling up the vocal minority. The transgender…
Faculty Lounge Court Delays Obama’s Transgender Bathroom Rule for Public Schools Spencer Irvine From the College Fix: A federal judge in Texas halted the Title IX guidance issued by the departments of Justice and…
Faculty Lounge Debunking the “College Professors Work Too Much” Argument Spencer Irvine August 25, 2016 Our friend George Leef debunks the college professor narrative that they work too much: The argument that the typical college…
Faculty Lounge West Virginia University’s Title IX Office: Using Wrong Gender Pronoun is a Violation Spencer Irvine Sounds a lot like Big Brother is now on college campuses: WVU’s Title IX office informs students that federal law…
Faculty Lounge Cal-Berkeley Spent $200,000 on PR for Chancellor Spencer Irvine Spending $200,000 just to get their chancellor (who is resigning, by the way) to get speaking opportunities at the Davos…
Perspectives Look for the Union Label Spencer Irvine Teachers’ unions can now point to an academic study to defend themselves against the charge that they prevent the firing…
Faculty Lounge Indiana’s Fraternities’ 4th Amendment Rights Could be at Risk Under New Policy Spencer Irvine August 24, 2016 The U.S. Constitution was written the way it was for a reason: Update on a proposal that has just become explicit policy:…
Faculty Lounge Don’t Use the Word “Man,” Princeton HR says Spencer Irvine Uh, what? This isn’t a joke, but is something that Princeton University’s human resources department decided to do: The Princeton…
Faculty Lounge Baltimore County Public Schools No Longer Grades on Homework, Behavior of Students Spencer Irvine You’d think this was a sick practical joke for the county’s schoolteachers, but it isn’t: Under the new system, a…