Faculty Lounge

An invited speaker at a Massachusetts high school was disinvited over his social conservatism, which was not the subject of the speech he was going to give.

About twenty Columbia University students protested in a campus library stairwell to demand an end to inviting conservative speakers to the university.

The municipal government in Washington, D. C.–which does not have a great track record in management, let alone education–thinks it does.

Or at least student government funding.

In the “you have to be kidding me” kind of news, USC students were unhappy at a teepee-like tent on their college campus because it was allegedly ‘culturally appropriating’ the Native American teepee.

Apparently, Georgetown University does not arm its campus police officers with sidearms, but with pepper spray and batons. One group at the university is petitioning the university to change that practice.

Yet another public school official got his hand caught in it.

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) seems to think so.

A team of researchers led by Miami University (of Ohio) Assistant Professor Andrew Saultz has compiled a map of “charter school deserts,” or poor areas where charters are hard to find but quite desired.

Jodi Melamud, a professor of English and Africana Studies at Marquette, implies that the Bill of Rights gives cover to bigotry.

African-American parents

When she made an appearance there, a student gave her an economics lesson she probably never expected and just as possibly never wanted.