Faculty Lounge

For those college students hoping for the “green jobs” their universities tell them about, film producer Ann McElhinney has compiled a list of green companies that have gone bankrupt, with an asterisk denoting those which have received taxpayer funding.

Reaction to the newly minted federal laws that require healthy school lunches is far from settled.

When blowing the whistle is not a good career move.

The Chronicle of Higher Education offered up more than a dozen reforms to shake up higher education.

When public officials proclaim that they are acting “for the children,” look to see how much skin they’ve got in the game.

Doubtless the president’s amen corner in academia loved it when he answered a debate question on jobs with a dissertation on education. Yet while academics may have stomped and whistled, those unenlightened folk outside the faculty lounge might be forgiven if they find the First Answer clueless.

Publishers are promoting new Core-aligned materials.

“Won’t Back Down” has already had previews at the Republican and Democratic conventions and was “well-received in both places,” the film’s producer Chris Flaherty said at the blogger’s briefing at the Heritage Foundation on September 25, 2012.

It’s interesting to see the value system at work among university administrators when they actually have to cut their budgets.

Tens of thousands of students in Texas with microchip ids.

Things to do in Denver when you’re progressive

A pair of professors from the University of Missouri School of Journalism have done a surprisingly sympathetic study of the blogging enterprise.