MLA, Perspectives Bootstrapping Broads: Talking Feminism Spencer Irvine January 15, 2016 Harriet Beecher Stowe, European gardens and gender bias were discussed in a recent Modern Language Association (MLA) panel at their…
Perspectives Fisher v. Texas, Take Two Spencer Irvine December 19, 2015 At the Heritage Foundation on the anniversary of Pearl Harbor, two law professors gave a preview of the second Fisher…
Faculty Lounge Texas Students Stage ‘Die-In’ Protest of a Play due to Blackface Spencer Irvine December 11, 2015 College students at Texas are apparently saying, historical accuracy be damned: University of Texas-Austin protesters don’t want theater audiences to…
Faculty Lounge University of Texas Relocates Confederate Statue Spencer Irvine August 31, 2015 The injunction to keep the statue of Jefferson Davis in a prominent part of campus was denied, so the statue…
Faculty Lounge GoFundMe Campaign Started to Help Keep Jefferson Davis Statue in Main Part of UT-Austin’s Campus Spencer Irvine August 26, 2015 As the College Fix reported, a GoFundMe crowdfunding campaign has been started to help pay for the legal fees to…
Faculty Lounge University of Texas Panel Recommends Relocation of Confederate Statues or Add Explanations Spencer Irvine August 12, 2015 A university task force made several recommendations, one of which was to add explanations to the statues to give context….
Faculty Lounge University of Texas Can’t Hide Scandal behind Privacy Laws Spencer Irvine May 18, 2015 FERPA (or the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) is commonly used to hide information from the public, but this…
Events, Guest Articles, News Texas College Administrator says Too Little Investment in College Nick Kowalski May 14, 2015 At the South by Southwest education conference in Austin, Texas recently, on a panel entitled “What’s Next for Access and…
Events, Guest Articles, News UT-Austin Unrepentant on Affirmative Action Nick Kowalski May 11, 2015 For higher education administrators, affirmative action remains a topic of concern. In Fisher v. The University of Texas at Austin,…
Faculty Lounge Texas Students Offended by Jefferson Davis Statue, OKs Resolution to Remove It Spencer Irvine March 31, 2015 The statue of the Confederate leader could be moved off-campus because current University of Texas-Austin students deem it offensive to…
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…
Events, News The Obama Administration’s anti-“One Strike” Crime Policy Spencer Irvine December 6, 2014 The Center for American Progress (CAP) has attempted to tackle a growing bipartisan issue: over-criminalization and over-incarceration. A recent panel…
