Faculty Lounge Report: The Higher the Tuition, the More Prone to Stifling Open Debate of Ideas Spencer Irvine March 22, 2017 Surprising results? A Brookings report discovered that the higher the college tuition and the wealthier the student body, the more…
Faculty Lounge Conservative Students Feel Harassed, Intimidated over Politics at Minnesota College Spencer Irvine Conservative students at St. Olaf College, a small college located in Minnesota, are keeping their mouths shut in light of…
Faculty Lounge Professor’s Op-Ed Wonders if White Parents are Raising Children to Avoid Racism Spencer Irvine Are white parents raising racist children, or at least dispelling racism while raising children in today’s society? A Drake University professor…
Faculty Lounge Controversy in northern Idaho as School Employees Recruit Kids for LGBT Club Spencer Irvine The College Fix reported that at a northern Idaho’s Forrest M. Bird charter school, there is a controversy brewing as…
Perspectives Is there a ‘Trump Effect’ that Increased Canadian International Student Enrollments? Spencer Irvine Inside Higher Ed reported how Canadian universities and colleges are experiencing a surge and spike in applications to their higher…
Faculty Lounge Hampshire College Students Assaulted Basketball Players over Braids, Alleged Cultural Appropriation Spencer Irvine Apparently, wearing braids as a non-minority is offensive and is “cultural appropriation” at Hampshire College. A Hampshire College student is accused…
Perspectives Obama Economist Can’t Spin Trump Jobs Data Malcolm A. Kline March 21, 2017 Lisa D. Cook, a Michigan State economist who served on President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors (CEA), took sharp aim…
Faculty Lounge College Bias Response Teams Chill Free Speech Spencer Irvine Our friend George Leef discussed how many people heard of disruptive protests at Middlebury College, but not about campus bias…
Faculty Lounge Common Core is Damaging American Student Readiness for College Spencer Irvine Joy Pullmann at the James G. Martin Center outlined why Common Core is hurting American students’ readiness for a college…
Faculty Lounge Students Still Need Econ 101 Classes Spencer Irvine A great piece from the James G. Martin Center on why, more than ever, college students need economics 101 courses:…
Faculty Lounge Emerson College: ‘Homosexual’ is Offensive to Gays so Stop Using It Spencer Irvine Apparently, the word “homosexual” can be offensive to gays at Emerson College. Instead, students are recommended to use the words…
Faculty Lounge Title IX Sexual Assault Injustice: Guilty before Proven Innocent Spencer Irvine A great take from Reason on the flawed reasoning of the Obama Department of Education’s Title IX sexual assault policies,…
