New York's Anti-Boycott Bill

The New York Senate has passed Assembly Bill A.8392 to cut off state aid to any academic organization that supports a boycott. As the NYU AAUP noted, “Elected officials are seeking to use their fiscal powers to limit the range of academic expression simply because they disagree with its content. Passing this legislation would set…

House Hearings on Intellectual Property and the Internet and the Issues Related to “Fair Use”: Part 2, Peter Jaszi’s Testimony

Professor Peter Jaszi Washington College of Law American University Washington, D.C.   January 28, 2014   FAIR USE NOW   I teach copyright law at the American University law school here in DC. For last decade or so, most of my work as a scholar, an activist and (occasionally) a litigator has focused on the…

The Fear of "Transient Academics"

Adjunct academics have been ignored, dismissed, underpaid, and exploited, but now somebody finally fears them. Unfortunately, it is a group of NIMBY residents in Evanston near Northwestern University who worry that adjunct faculty might live near them and lower property values. The Southeast Evanston Association expressed fears in an email about a proposed extended stay…

House Hearings on Intellectual Property and the Internet and the Issues Related to “Fair Use”: Part 1, June M. Besek’s Testimony

June M. Besek  Executive Director of the Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts and Lecturer-in-Law,  Columbia Law School jbesek@law.columbia.edu January 28, 2014, 2:00 p.m. Thank you, Chairman Goodlatte, Chairman Coble, Ranking Member Conyers, and members of the Committee. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. My name is June Besek. I am the Executive Director…

New Issue of the Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

JCBA is an open access, peer-review online publication of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions. Jeffrey Cross, Eastern Illinois University and Steve Hicks, Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties are JCBA’s Editors-in-Chief. JCBA welcomes submission of scholarly articles for future volumes from a wide community of university and college faculty,…

Text of the State of the Union Address

Delivered by President Obama Tuesday, January 28, 2014 Washington, D.C.   As Prepared for Delivery – Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, my fellow Americans: Today in America, a teacher spent extra time with a student who needed it, and did her part to lift America’s graduation rate to its highest level in…

Adjunct Narratives

This post is cross-posted from Yellow Dog with the permission of its author, Jeff Rice of the University of Kentucky. First person narratives about the adjunct experience in academia are being published – it seems – daily. Today, I came across a link from a Facebook friend about a Fairbanks, Alaska adjunct on food stamps.  A link to…

A Far-Right Alternative to Raising the Minimum Wage

Reason provides a very Libertarian slant on current issues. The articles consistently reflect a Far-Right ideology, but there is little of the very obvious pandering to parochialism and paranoia that taints many other major Far-Right publications, from World Net Daily to the American Spectator to even the National Review. True to the periodical’s title, most…