The Faculty Lounge

The Houston Chronicle has run contrary editorials in recent days on the role that student evaluations should play in determining the quality / proficiency of teaching and the classroom experience. …

Christina Nwachukwu Jr., over at Huffington Post, has proposed an interesting, impressive, and unexpected list of potential Supreme Court nominees.  He has intentionally passed over many of the media darlings,…

Have you seen Barbie's real-life Malibu Dream House?  It's a 3500 square foot house in Malibu, California - and it's been dolled up as a 50th anniversary Barbie promotion by…

Award-winning storyteller Horton Foote died earlier this week at the age of 92.  Foote, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for The Young Man From Atlanta, is perhaps best ...

You know the law job market is sputtering when you hear that the career planning folks at HLS are scrambling.  In his February 24 student town hall meeting, soon-to-be Interim…

Harvard Law is going to have a new permanent dean by the first of July.  Or at least that's what HLS students should reasonably assume, according to the interim-dean-to-be, Howell…

Soon after Tom Read became our eighth dean in 1995 (we hope to name our tenth dean soon), he suggested that a photographer take “head shots” of each faculty member. …

It sounds a little crazy, but West Virginia state representative Jeff Eldridge has apparently introduced a bill in the West Virginia House of Representatives (No. 2198, to be exact) that would…

I joined the STCL faculty in 1994.  I’m approaching 50, so my mind isn’t what it used to be.  But as I recall, our faculty was asked to consider, every ...

Yesterday I noted that there may be an impending crisis for state sponsored 529 prepaid tuition savings plans - those programs that  guarantee that they'll cover state school tuition in…