Faculty Lounge College Professor Association Endorses Idea of ‘Sanctuary Campus’ Spencer Irvine December 2, 2016 Has the AAUP verified the number of hate crimes since Trump’s election, or have they forgotten that several have been…
Faculty Lounge George Washington University Art School Chief Creates ‘Safe Space’ for Traumatized Students Post-Trump Win Spencer Irvine November 30, 2016 Yes, because a safe space at an art school in the liberal city of Washington, D.C. will do people good…
Perspectives Academic Gets The Right Wrong Malcolm A. Kline In the Chronicle Review, a Stanford historian interviews George Nash, distinguished chronicler of the political right, with the pretty tacit…
Faculty Lounge Rethinking Schools Sends Out Email Survey on Post-Trump America Spencer Irvine November 29, 2016 From an email by Rethinking Schools: Dear friends, In Rethinking Schools’ fall editorial, we wrote about how students had been…
Perspectives Meet Betsy DeVos, the New Education Secretary Deborah Lambert President-elect Donald Trump has selected billionaire philanthropist Betsy DeVos, a relatively unknown figure on the national scene, to head the…
Faculty Lounge College Professors Circulate Email Petition about Trump EPA Pick Myron Ebell Spencer Irvine This brings into question why university professors at state universities, paid for by taxpayer dollars, are circulating a political petition…
Faculty Lounge Really?! Loyola Maryland University Calls ‘Party in the USA’ Theme ‘Divisive’ Spencer Irvine November 28, 2016 Since when is patriotism offensive or ‘divisive’? Apparently, it’s after a Republican wins the White House, at least to administrators…
Faculty Lounge Huh? Over 450 UPenn Faculty Members Ask Trump to Comment on UPenn Incident Spencer Irvine From The College Fix: According to The Daily Pennsylvanian, over 460 Penn faculty have signed on to a letter asking…
Faculty Lounge ‘Therapy Wall’ at UT-Austin Created for Students to Share Election Grief Spencer Irvine November 26, 2016 From The College Fix: The student government created a “Therapy Wall” in the Student Activity Center Wednesday for students to…
Perspectives Are We All Trumpets? Malcolm A. Kline November 25, 2016 The American division of Graduate Women International (GWI) may find itself in the odd position of channeling Donald Trump. “On…
Faculty Lounge University Professor Association President: Trump is the ‘Greatest Threat to Academic Freedom’ Since McCarthy Spencer Irvine November 23, 2016 The president of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) said that Trump is a grave threat to academic freedom:…
Faculty Lounge Conservatives Start ‘Not My Campus’ Effort at University of Michigan to Counter President’s Remarks on Trump Spencer Irvine From Campus Reform: The school’s president, Mark Schlissel, made national headlines after last week’s shocking election results when he publicly…
