Faculty Lounge

Like his peers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Hassan Melehy is quite incensed at the efforts of the John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy.

In attempting to supplement the historical record, the editors of Rethinking Schools run the risk of obscuring it.

In a recent post on his academe blog, John K. Wilson offers several quotes to rebut the charge that mid East scholar Norman Finkelstein is a holocaust denier

Arguably, this is where the issue of sex education belongs.

While the academic world is overwhelmingly either non-profit or attached to state and local governments, left-leaning academics are warning of the danger of the relatively tiny for-profit sector in higher education.

While Barack Obama’s image as America’s “gay president” is still settling in the public mind, another image came hurtling into view – that of Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, the person in charge of more than 49 million public school kids, expressing his full support for same sex marriage as well.

Recently, some long-suppressed government reports have finally revealed that it doesn’t work, despite spending nearly $7 billion on nearly 1 million children every year.

As if he hasn’t had enough bad news, now the presdent faces a study finding him wanting from one of his key constituencies—academia.

It turns out that the author of A Beautiful Mind has an impressive intellect as well.

Occasionally, you actually do get some unique insights from academia, unique to academia anyway.

The decades-long push to make English Departments more relevant has only succeeded in marginalizing them.

Evidently the publicity that  surrounded the removal of team mascot Chief Illiniwek five years ago  only whetted the University of Illinois’ appetite for more controversy.