Faculty Lounge Boston University Professor Offers Non-Apology for Racist Tweets Spencer Irvine May 14, 2015 Sociology professor Saida Grundy disparaged whites via Twitter, and they’re not appropriate at all for a professor who teaches young…
Faculty Lounge Update: Boston University Professor’s Racist Tweets Condemned by Administration Spencer Irvine May 12, 2015 The university has backtracked since the news broke and has condemned professor Saida Grundy’s racist tweets.
Faculty Lounge New Hampshire College will Teach Course about DeflateGate Spencer Irvine May 9, 2015 Really? How do deflated footballs in the National Football League actually help students learn real-life applications?!
Faculty Lounge Colleges Pressured to Divest from Fossil Fuels Spencer Irvine May 2, 2015 But, if American colleges and universities do divest from fossil fuels, then how can they increase their endowment funds? Fossil…
Faculty Lounge ‘American Sniper’ Canceled at the University of Maryland Spencer Irvine April 25, 2015 As Fox News said: “The University of Maryland announced it will postpone indefinitely an upcoming screening of “American Sniper” after…
Events, Perspectives A Modest U.N. Proposal Malcolm A. Kline April 24, 2015 Can it be that students gather annually around the country to construct a “Model United Nations” because the real one…
Faculty Lounge Muslim Student Protests Viewing of ‘American Sniper’ on Campus Spencer Irvine March 20, 2015 The student activist is attending the University of Missouri and is demanding that the movie not be screened by the…
Faculty Lounge OOPS! Carnegie Mellon accidentally sends out 800 Student Admittance Letters Spencer Irvine February 18, 2015 That’s a big no-no for universities. Now 800 students who were not going to be admitted to the university, but…
Faculty Lounge Harvard: New Ban on Sex between Professors, Undergrad Students Spencer Irvine February 6, 2015 Apparently, the school prohibited sex between professors and the undergraduate students they supervised. Now, the ban is far-reaching. That makes…
