Faculty Lounge Sweet Briar College is Closing, but Not Before Their Spending Habits Emerge Spencer Irvine March 14, 2015 Sweet Briar College, a woman-only college, kept building new facilities, hiring faculty although enrollment was plunging to new depths, and…
Faculty Lounge Guest Lecturer Offended by Tenured Spanish Professor Spencer Irvine March 11, 2015 A guest lecturer visited the University of North Georgia and was corrected several times by a tenured Spanish professor. That…
Faculty Lounge University of Delaware President Suggests Cuts to Lower Tuition Spencer Irvine March 1, 2015 University faculty were outraged by the president’s recent op-ed in a local newspaper, which criticized how flawed the higher education…
Faculty Lounge Texas Faculty Told Not to Support On-Campus Carry Efforts for Students Spencer Irvine February 19, 2015 Talk about an attempt to suppress free speech and Second Amendment rights. The faculty council chair at the University of…
Perspectives Scott Walker’s Smart Higher Ed Proposal Malcolm A. Kline February 6, 2015 The governor of Wisconsin has provoked the ire of the higher education establishment in the state by suggesting that professors…
News ObamaCare hits George Washington University Spencer Irvine September 24, 2014 The faculty at George Washington University made substantial contributions to President Obama when he was seeking that office. They are…
News Administrators Not Created Equal Spencer Irvine May 2, 2014 In The Chronicle of Higher Education, writer Don Troop highlighted the current controversy at the University of Michigan concerning how…
