Faculty Lounge

If a lawyer who represents himself has, as an old adage went, “a fool for a client,” what can you say about students who teach themselves?

We need to poll some college students and recent graduates on this.

Apparently, Brown University is offering conflicting advice to students on the dangers of taking illegal drugs.

Despite the assertions of opponents of charter schools, teachers in those institutions tend to actually be more diverse than their traditional public school counterparts, data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) show.

Don’t let the name fool you: Red4EdNC is anything but a Republican group.

PETA is suing Texas A&M for deleting anti-research comments on the university’s Facebook page, which criticize the university for using dogs in scientific research.

A couple of criminology professors contend that “alt-right” protesters should be treated as street gangs, but were silent on the “Antifa” (i.e. anti-fascist) protesters who also ignite violence.

We rarely see eye-to-eye with the liberal Washington Monthly but their college rankings are an intriguing alternative to the much-heralded U. S. News rankings that administrators everywhere dream of getting in.

Over and over again, we seem to see that when political, media and academic elites agree on something, it stands a very good chance of not being true.

So naturally, the news gets buried.

University of Colorado-Boulder’s sociology department offers a “Whiteness Studies” class this upcoming fall semester, which analyzes ‘whiteness’ and critically thinks about it.

A graduate student was reassigned from teaching assistant responsibilities after the student separated gun owners from the rest of the class in one of the lectures.