Faculty Lounge

A little bible college in Los Angeles may revive the, at best, moribund and musty discipline of philosophy and academic philosophers don’t like it one bit.

Newt Gingrich has described Europe as in a state of “elegant decay.” What happens when they lose the elegance?

The Colorado Board of Regents wants to take a poll to find out whether ideology governs hiring practices in the university system and the American Association of University Professors (AAUP)  is clearly not happy about it.

Does the Supreme Court ruling=more student aid?

Like top-down efforts to reform education pursued by Republican presidents, the Obama Administration’s Common Core program, in which states exchange essentially national standards for federal aid, is already flailing, if not failing.

“Is Big Philanthropy Undermining Democracy?” NYU prof asks.

A recent study concluded that colleges’ teaching preparation is an “industry of mediocrity.”

A bipartisan research council found that American students are just average.

A Cleveland State University study found that hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, leads to economic growth in the regions where it is used.

When the pro-choice crowd tries to prove how put upon they are, they only succeed in demonstrating their prevalence.

The homeschooling phenomenon is continuing its upward spiral.

We may now have to face the possibility that entire fields of study have been inflated beyond their value.