Faculty Lounge 100 Years of AAUP Spencer Irvine January 8, 2016 Differences between conservative and liberal opinions of the AAUP and how it has stuck (or not) to their 1915 Declaration.
Perspectives Rutgers Faculty Opposes “Academic Inquiry” Malcolm A. Kline January 7, 2016 Academics generally resist most attempts to invade their sanctum. Nevertheless, although they may share an elastic definition of “scholarship,” they…
Faculty Lounge Update on China’s Detention of Labor Activists Spencer Irvine December 21, 2015 Via the AAUP’s Academe Blog, here’s the background: On December 3, authorities detained 20 labor activists in Guangdong Province. Four…
Faculty Lounge Academic Claims that Student Protests haven’t Violated Anyone’s Rights Spencer Irvine December 9, 2015 Did this academic forget about the Missouri student journalist who was being threatened by a professor at the University of…
Guest Articles Wilson, Du Bois, and Who is Worth Honoring Jonathan Marks December 3, 2015 Guest blogger Jonathan Marks teaches political philosophy at Ursinus College. Corey Robin, a professor of political science at Brooklyn College,…
Faculty Lounge Academia Mistreating the Disabled Spencer Irvine November 12, 2015 Good take from the Academe Blog.
Guest Articles Tim Wolfe Resigns from the University of Missouri John K. Wilson November 9, 2015 John K. Wilson on the American Association of University Professors blog offered his own interesting take on the UMizzou controversy:…
Faculty Lounge David Brooks Falling Apart Spencer Irvine October 22, 2015 The AAUP’s Academe Blog tackles one of David Brooks’ latest pieces. It’s worth a read.
Faculty Lounge LSU Censured by Faculty, Students after Firing a Cursing Professor Spencer Irvine October 10, 2015 The College Fix noted the following: The American Association of University Professors censured Louisiana State University for its firing of a professor,…
Perspectives Academia’s Binder Full of Women Malcolm A. Kline September 28, 2015 In the last presidential election, the Republican candidate, Mitt Romney, received much derision when he announced in a debate that…
Faculty Lounge Increased Computer Use in the Classroom could be Bad for Learning Spencer Irvine September 16, 2015 A study recently pointed this out, as Academe Blog noted.
Faculty Lounge Are College Professors Becoming their Own Worst Enemy? Spencer Irvine September 4, 2015 The Academe Blog takes a look at how some college professors have created an unsafe environment for themselves on college…
