Faculty Lounge

When outspoken conservative Paul Gottfried gave a lecture at Hamilton College, he was literally outspoken.

It is a sign of an awakening economy when jobs go begging. It is also an indication of the futility of higher education today.

And other liberal institutions.

Although the encounter was far more civil than most college meet-ups.

Student activists at Reed College, after gaining concessions from the college administration on a humanities 101 course curriculum, are now demanding more changes.

You’ll have to learn about guilt and shame somewhere else.

Economist Walter Williams has called education schools the ghettos of universities and, like some neighborhoods that might be described that way, they resist improvement even when their deterioration is obvious to everyone outside their borders.

Penn State University, in the name of ‘gender inclusivity,’ will no longer use ‘homecoming king’ or ‘homecoming queen’ as a part of their festivities.

To chair the Kansas State University Women’s Studies, you can get paid $140,000 a year, per a recent job listing.

Apparently, women who have abortions need emotional support, which spurred UMass-Amherst to host an event for training doulas to emotionally support women who had abortions.

Ohio State University hosted a deportation defense training workshop, which was organized by the Central Ohio Worker Center and Young Democratic Socialists of America to “resist ICE.”

In days of yore–i.e., my childhood–the Sisters of Saint Joseph used to tell us that an idle mind is the devil’s workshop. It looks like academia is catching up to that outlook.