Faculty Lounge The Ugly Truth Behind “Diversity” Requirements Spencer Irvine July 26, 2016 Hamilton College’s diversity requirement is not a good thing for their students, writes Mary Grabar.
Faculty Lounge College Students Claim They’re Starving, so Do They Need Food Assistance? Spencer Irvine June 17, 2016 College students, in a survey, claim they go hungry and are too poor to afford food. But is it the taxpayers’ responsibility to pay for college students’ food?
Faculty Lounge Do Grades Matter? Spencer Irvine April 21, 2016 George Leef talks about the grade inflation and whether you can trust someone’s grades at college. Photo by michael pollak…
Faculty Lounge Are Anti-Campus Carry Activists Upset About Nothing? Spencer Irvine April 16, 2016 Good take from our friends over at the John William Pope Center: Eight states currently allow concealed carry permit holders…
Faculty Lounge If Adjuncts are Treated Unfairly, Is There a Solution? Spencer Irvine March 31, 2016 George Leef’s latest and a must-read on how adjuncts can be treated fairly. Photo by IFPRI-IMAGES
Faculty Lounge Non-Tenured Faculty is Innovative Spencer Irvine March 15, 2016 A great take by Jesse Saffron of the Pope Center on why non-tenured faculty is an innovative idea. Photo by…
Faculty Lounge North Carolina Colleges Raise Budgets, but Leave Students in Debt Spencer Irvine An excerpt from the Pope Center’s report on the state of North Carolina universities and colleges: For example, North Carolina…
Faculty Lounge Ten Years Later, the Duke Lacrosse Case Still Reverberates Spencer Irvine February 22, 2016 It’s a good read by K.C. Johnson on the ten-year anniversary of the Duke men’s lacrosse rape scandal. Photo by…
Faculty Lounge Activists have Hijacked Anthrolopogy for Their Political Aims Spencer Irvine February 20, 2016 Everything is political now, especially at universities. Photo by 53Kevin
Faculty Lounge Gender Indoctrination at Community Colleges Spencer Irvine December 13, 2015 The trend, which is currently sweeping across four-year colleges and universities, is now spreading to community colleges. What gives?
Faculty Lounge Publish or Perish Isn’t a Bad Thing Spencer Irvine November 10, 2015 Interesting take on the academic way of life.
Faculty Lounge Humanities Tries to Defend Itself against Mounting Criticism Spencer Irvine October 27, 2015 Are humanities courses going the way of the dodo? Are they going to become extinct?!