Faculty Lounge Minnesota could have Tuition-Free College for Families Earning less than $125,000/year Spencer Irvine January 29, 2017 From The College Fix: A Minnesota lawmaker wants to make sure that financial uncertainty is never the reason a student…
Faculty Lounge University Presidents Send Mass Emails to Students to Highlight Concerns over a Trump Presidency Spencer Irvine November 17, 2016 The presidents at the University of Minnesota and Oglethorpe University were two examples of many mass e-mails sent from college…
Perspectives Federalizing the MLA Malcolm A. Kline August 22, 2016 Colleges and universities are forever feeling shortchanged by taxpayers. They needn’t worry. For one thing, they are far richer than…
Faculty Lounge Minnesota Students Worry that Free Speech Protections will Create Protections for Hate Speech Spencer Irvine May 19, 2016 Maybe they should review Supreme Court cases and get a better understanding of what free speech is.
Faculty Lounge There’s Fat Activism? Activist Claims ‘Exercises and Diets are Constructs’ Spencer Irvine May 12, 2016 There’s an activist for everything, apparently.
Faculty Lounge Oops! Minnesota College Students Ask University to Divest from Companies They Don’t Invest In Spencer Irvine March 1, 2016 Do your homework, kids. The University of Minnesota has no direct exposure to any of the four stocks targeted by…
Perspectives Silent Conservatives at Colleges Malcolm A. Kline February 10, 2016 Apparently liberals on college campuses are not only “triggered” by what they hear from conservatives but even by their silence….
Faculty Lounge 9/11 Moment of Remembrance Reinstated by Minnesota Student Gov’t after Veto Stirred Backlash Spencer Irvine December 2, 2015 The college administration had to step in to resolve the issue: Despite widespread student and administrative support, a resolution calling for a…
Faculty Lounge University of Minnesota Recommends Diversity Training for Admissions Spencer Irvine August 21, 2015 Not the administration, but the students are pushing for this! Campus Reform with the latest: Students at the University of…
Faculty Lounge Blasphemy Accusations push Professors to Remove Mohammed Cartoons Spencer Irvine May 7, 2015 Really? People are THAT sensitive? “University of Minnesota faculty members were asked earlier this year to take down posters advertising…
Faculty Lounge University of Minnesota says it won’t include Race in Crime Alerts on their campuses Spencer Irvine February 28, 2015 This isn’t a joke. The university won’t use race in their crime alerts, but doesn’t that do more harm than…