Faculty Lounge At Least 150 Chicago Professors Disagree with Dean’s Statement on No More ‘Safe Spaces’ Spencer Irvine September 20, 2016 Over 150 professors at the University of Chicago don’t like what their dean of students said about no more ‘trigger…
Faculty Lounge More Outrage: This Time, over University of Chicago Rejecting Safe Spaces Spencer Irvine August 30, 2016 The letter written by University of Chicago Dean of Students John Ellison said they don’t have safe spaces and will…
Guest Articles Does the University of Chicago Really Protect Free Expression? John K. Wilson August 29, 2016 Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on the Academe Blog. It’s praiseworthy that the University of Chicago has announced…
Faculty Lounge DePaul Should Make a Decision on Letting Speakers Back onto Campus Spencer Irvine August 11, 2016 The Chicago Tribune featured an op-ed by its editorial board, which criticized the private Catholic university DePaul for barring controversial…
Faculty Lounge University of Chicago Students Ask for Divestment from China Spencer Irvine May 11, 2016 Why not divest from China, if some academics are pushing to divest from Israel?
Faculty Lounge Chicago Law Graduates Accuse the Late SCOTUS Justice Scalia of Racism Spencer Irvine March 15, 2016 Black students were upset that they received low grades while in the University of Chicago’s law school, with Antonin Scalia…
Faculty Lounge Mandatory Diversity Training and Tuition Hikes for Loyola-Chicago Students Spencer Irvine February 19, 2016 Well, there you have it; no such thing as a free lunch: The interim president of Loyola University-Chicago isn’t waiting…
Faculty Lounge Chicago High School Replaces MLK Jr. Day with Day of Seminars on Race, Islamophobia Spencer Irvine January 15, 2016 Via College Fix: New Trier High School, one of the nation’s top public schools located in Chicago’s posh North Shore,…
Faculty Lounge Students at a Chicago High School Protest their Free Cafeteria Food Spencer Irvine December 29, 2015 They are demanding better food, which they get for free to begin with. Uh, okay?
Faculty Lounge Million Student March Organizer is a 1%-er After All Spencer Irvine November 17, 2015 Keely Mullins, the female student who was embarrassed on Fox Business’ Neil Cavuto for only knowing her talking points, is…
Faculty Lounge Dept of Ed Orders Chicago High School to Allow Transgender Student to Use Girls’ Locker Room Spencer Irvine November 5, 2015 This is getting out of hand, isn’t it? The U.S. Department of Education has ordered suburban Chicago’s Township High School District…
Perspectives Delaying Common Core the Chicago Way Malcolm A. Kline April 21, 2015 Opposition to Common Core continues to spread well across party lines, no matter how much the educational establishment tires to…