Faculty Lounge The SAT has become Political Spencer Irvine February 21, 2017 The Wall Street Journal (beware of the paywall) had a piece blasting the politicization of the annual college entrance exams called…
Faculty Lounge CSPAN Presidents Survey: Lincoln, Washington are Top Two for Historians Spencer Irvine February 20, 2017 A survey of historians of American presidents ranked the following as the top five presidents: Abraham Lincoln George Washington Theodore…
Faculty Lounge After Yale Bowed to Pressure to Rename Calhoun College, Clemson Students Target Tillman Hall Spencer Irvine From The College Fix: Seeing Yale finally alter the name of its Calhoun College, students at Clemson University are reinvigorating the…
Faculty Lounge Colorado State University Suspended ‘Diversity Grant’ after Pro-Life Students Sued Spencer Irvine From The College Fix: Colorado State University refused to fund a pro-life student group’s event with its “diversity grant” –…
Perspectives Remembering President’s Day: The Gettysburg Address Spencer Irvine On this President’s Day, let’s recall the words of Abraham Lincoln in his Gettysburg Address: “Four score and seven years…
Faculty Lounge Penn Frat Beer Pong Team ‘Viet Pong’ Offends Students Spencer Irvine February 19, 2017 Everything is offensive, even a beer pong team name from a Penn fraternity: A member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity…
Faculty Lounge Maryland Politicians Consider a Bill on ‘Affirmative Consent’ Spencer Irvine From The College Fix: “Affirmative consent” is a fuzzy concept even for adults, which is why one of them taught 10th…
Faculty Lounge University of Cincinnati to hold a Workshop on ‘White Fragility’ Spencer Irvine February 18, 2017 Sounds like the college ‘snowflake’ generation needs a workshop on their ‘white fragility’ at the University of Cincinnati.
Faculty Lounge White Pins Worn by Students to Remind Selves of White Privilege Spencer Irvine Elizabethtown College students began to wear white pins to remember white privilege, per The College Fix: The campaign was launched over the…
Faculty Lounge Gettysburg Anti-Capitalist Student Group Builds ‘Trump Wall’ Spencer Irvine February 17, 2017 From Campus Reform: The Gettysburg College Anti-Capitalist Collective (GACC) assembled a “Trump wall” made of paper boxes in the school’s…
Faculty Lounge Research Universities File Brief against Donald Trump’s Executive Order Spencer Irvine Interesting development from academia, where universities signed onto an amicus brief against President Trump’s executive order on refugee vetting.
Faculty Lounge Clemson University Faculty Signed Up for Anti-Trump Protest Group Spencer Irvine From Campus Reform: Faculty members and students at Clemson University, inspired by a trending anti-Trump manifesto, are amping up their…
