Faculty Lounge

Is that a metaphor?

Two law school professors recently broke with prevailing academic orthodoxies to declare that states requiring doctor’s to share information from ultrasounds with patients contemplating abortions were acting legally.

John K. Wilson of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) objects to the efforts of the Tennessee assembly to affirm the freedom of association of Christian groups.

While Creative Writing majors are serving coffee and college graduates who majored in various species of “studies” are occupying Wall Street, K Street or any other venue where they can pitch a tent, some institutions are actually offering degrees in fields that look more promising.

After decades of steady growth, the legal profession is finding that it too is not recession-proof.

Obama Administration supporters watching in shock and awe as the government’s lawyers stumble their way through Supreme Court testimony on the Affordable Care Act might not have been so surprised if they had listened to some of the law’s opponents.

            If you want to avoid the bricks and mortar of the traditional college experience, as well as campus politics, you may find an increasing array of alternatives online.

At a time when spending in higher education is viewed with increasing suspicion, Hamilton College is trying a new stratagem to justify it.

Academic humor is usually an oxymoronic term but every now and then you find an exception to the rule. Here’s one from Georgetown professor George Viksnins.

As expected, the academic establishment is pushing back at the Catholic bishops for protesting the Obama Administration’s regulation that would require religious institutions to provide sterilization, abortifacients and contraceptives free of charge.

Did a noted women’s college show the superficiality of its commitment to women?

Inquiring minds want to know.