Faculty Statement on Narendra Modi Visit to Silicon Valley, Multiple Authors Culling the Iowa Faculty, Aaron Barlow Alice Dreger’s Letter of Resignation at Northwestern, Alice Dreger The Revelations in Phyllis Wise’s Emails, John K. Wilson Marquette to Fire John McAdams for His Blog, John K. Wilson The Troubling Case of Professor Stephen Cohen and the…
The Far-Right news service Newsmax has provided the following summary of an interview conducted by Mario Lopez for the entertainment-news show Extra: “Hollywood icon Clint Eastwood praised Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ben Carson—saying that either ‘would be better than what we got.’ . . . “’I think there’s quite a few of them…
My father used to ask a student to draw a line a meter long on the blackboard, take a look and tell the student the length was not right. “Practice,” he would say, “until you get it right.” That truncated part of my father’s lesson seems to be the model for contemporary American educational policy.…
Peter Kirstein very recently did a post to this blog titled “Universities, Penthouses, and CEO Venality” [https://academeblog.org/2015/12/21/universities-penthouses-and-ceo-venality/] Coincidentally, the Dayton Daily News recently has published an article by Josh Sweigart on the housing provided to university presidents in Ohio. Although it includes some attention to the new residence being provided for the new president of…
This is a visual addendum to my concurrent post on this topic. Because Santa Ono, President of the University of Cincinnati, lives off-campus and accepts no housing subsidy from the university, I have excluded his residence. Other notes: The residence included here for the president of Cleveland State University was listed for sale in September…
By Stephen Kuusisto In his essay “How Can We Explain Violence Against Disabled People?” Dan Goodley, Professor of Psychology and Disability Studies at the University of Sheffield argues that offenses against the disabled have their origins in ableist cultural practices. He points to the circulating practices of ableism: The cultural theorist Slavoj Žižek, in his 2008…
It turns out that Martin Shkreli endowed an NYU professorship, the Martin Shkreli Professor of Pediatric Nephrology. Current holder is Howard Trachtman who, according to The Huffington Post, “previously served as a consultant at Retrophin, where Shkreli was CEO.” The article goes on to quote NYU spokesperson Lisa Greiner, “We reviewed potential conflicts of interests at each…
