Faculty Lounge

The Royal News of my alma mater—the University of Scranton—brings me the latest at Da U.

Academics rarely miss a chance, in or out of the classroom, to promote their ideas. What they do far less frequently is invite inquiry.

Probably because they wouldn’t be caught dead going anywhere near one, academics frequently misunderstand the nature of TEA parties, then go public with their conclusions as though they were revealed truth.

A group of College Republicans at the University of California-Merced recently made a video in which they asked fellow students who support redistribution of wealth if they would support redistribution of GPA points.

Two academics writing in The Chronicle Review offer a more clear-eyed assessment of the Muslim Brotherhood than most intellectuals have offered. Unfortunately, they go on to equate it with the Catholic Church.

Academics may be increasingly reluctant to recognize Christmas but they do notice it.

College professors love to talk about how vital their work is in a democracy but some high-profile administrators have actively sought and received donations from rulers in one-party states without a peep of protest from their star faculty members.

President Obama recently delivered a broadside against standardized testing that might be worth further examination.

She may have been out of office for more than a half a year but former D. C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee is still having an impact on the nation’s capital.

When even seminaries are becoming politically correct, religious freedom is on very shaky ground.

Pro-life students expecting to find a haven in such institutions of higher learning find themselves sadly mistaken.

University officials love to talk about what they contribute to local economies, no matter how inflated those claims may be. They are more reticent about discussing some of their other activities.