Faculty Lounge

In a recent blog, a religious studies professor from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville summarized the current academic outlook on the lead paragraph of one of his blogs.

A cabal of demonstrators shouted down author Christina Hoff Sommers when she appeared at Lewis & Clark University.

Miami University of Ohio’s Women’s Center has an internship program for up to seven interns per year. The interns are assigned to organize events for students to push for ‘radical feminism’ and social justice efforts.

Duke University is now randomly assigning roommates to students to promote diversity and avoid roommates from being too similar to each other.

UConn announced their next on-campus speaker: Women’s March organizer Linda Sarsour, who advocates for sharia law and has ties to a Palestinian terrorist.

Faculty at Lehigh University petitioned the university’s board to rescind an honorary degree to Donald Trump, but the board declined and cited how the degree was awarded twenty-nine years ago.

In an ironic move, UCLA announced that Chelsea Manning will be speaking at the university on the subject of “public ethics.”

Purdue University has an online writing guide which warned students against using the word “man” out of fear that it would offend people and would be considered too sexist, but changed it after it was reported on.

The Cornell University Resident Student Congress passed a unanimous resolution to have an Asian and Asian-American-only residential floor in a residence hall.

Is the Teacher’s College at Columbia showing teenagers how to go viral or get a virus?

Despite the media attention that school shootings such as the tragedy in Parkland generate, the number of such incidents has actually gone down considerably over the past three decades, according to a recently released academic study.

A study from the University of Arkansas may have stumbled upon one reason for declining test scores–apathy.