Faculty Lounge

American universities producing and hiring home-grown clowns, from Ivy Leagues down through states and localities, should feel properly dissed.

And leaves academics stunned.

Protesters from the City University of New York protested tax cuts in a demonstration on Wall Street. The delicious irony is that in that locale they were more likely to demonstrate before supporters of Hillary Clinton than of Donald Trump.

And, of course, it’s taking place outside of higher education.

In the wake of the riots at UVA last summer, the police chief in Charlottesville has resigned.

My home state racks up a dubious distinction.

The FBI is reviewing claims that the University of New Mexico violated laws on the books regarding the obtaining of body parts for research.

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) told Harvard graduate students that they must have another round of voting to go forward in their unionization plans.

A Pace University professor wrote a pro-Palestinian children’s book and whose use of the word “intifada” upset pro-Israel supporters.

In the Race to the Top is No Child Left Behind?

A Navy veteran might find he ran into less red tape defending his country in the service than he will passing out copies of the U. S. Constitution at Bunker Hill Community College.

The National Football League, which has pledged $89 million to social justice causes to placate its players, is partnering with the historical college Morehouse College to host a “Advocacy in Sport” workshop in February 2017.