Faculty Lounge Missouri Politicians Investigating Professor who is Running for Attorney General Spot Spencer Irvine August 17, 2015 As College Fix noted: The candidacy of a University of Missouri law professor running for Missouri’s Attorney General post has…
Faculty Lounge Missouri Teacher Suspended over Traffic Tweets after Black Lives Matters Protesters Blocked Highway Spencer Irvine August 16, 2015 The College Fix reported: Hating on protesters who block traffic isn’t exactly a new thing. But it appears to have…
Faculty Lounge College Chancellor Freaked Out about an Old Photo of a Confederate Flag near Mizzou Campus Spencer Irvine July 21, 2015 It was a three-year-old photo which sparked the University of Missouri chancellor’s remarks, which photo he called “threatening.” Check the…
Faculty Lounge Mizzou joins Virginia as Universities Banning Free Speech Zones Spencer Irvine This is a good thing to protect free speech on college campuses. The more colleges that ban these free speech…
Faculty Lounge Missouri Universities in Trouble as One Buys $1.4 Million Golf Course, Other Pays Chelsea Clinton $65,000 for Half-Hour Speech Spencer Irvine July 13, 2015 Uh, talk about wasteful spending. A half-hour speech netted a $65,000 payout to Chelsea Clinton and a $1.4 million golf…
Perspectives Teaching Moment on Baltimore Missed Malcolm A. Kline June 30, 2015 Here’s what so-called “teachable moments” in academia generally miss—the decade those moments are in. “There is a revolution taking place…
Faculty Lounge St. Louis University removes Catholic Priest Statue due to Concerns of Racism Spencer Irvine May 28, 2015 It is a statue depicting a Catholic priest praying over an American Indian, but people complained that it was a…
Faculty Lounge Professors Want Students to Fight Against White Privilege, not to just Acknowledge It Spencer Irvine April 12, 2015 Fight The Man! This is what it seems like professors are telling their students nowadays. But, this story is one…
Faculty Lounge St. Louis Student Senator: Supporting College President as Urgent as Denouncing Slavery Spencer Irvine March 7, 2015 It is a really odd and flawed statement, to compare the abolition of slavery to supporting the embattled university president at…
Faculty Lounge St. Louis University Under Pressure for Ferguson, anti-Police Monument Spencer Irvine March 1, 2015 The president is backtracking, at least publicly, that the university will build a monument specifically commemorating the Ferguson protests. But,…
Faculty Lounge Protesters Interrupt Missouri Prosecutor who was involved in Ferguson Case Spencer Irvine February 23, 2015 Student protesters at St. Louis University chanted and sang, interrupting the speaker, before they were escorted out by campus security. The…
Faculty Lounge Proposed Ferguson Protest Monument at St. Louis University Offends Donors, Alumni Spencer Irvine February 19, 2015 The monument was agreed on by protesters, who were on St. Louis University campus during and after the Ferguson, Missouri…