The Hunting Ground to Be Broadcast Tonight at 8:00 ET on CNN
Opportunities for Advocacy of the Humanities and of Funding for the Humanities
This post does not represent an AAUP endorsement of the events being sponsored by the National Humanities Alliance. I myself am not even a member of this organization. But in a large number of posts to this blog, a number of contributors have made the case for the value of the Humanities, and this organization…
Notoriety as a Rationale for Demonization
This past week, Danny Ledonne’s documentary Playing Columbine was scheduled to be shown and discussed in a public forum at Adams State University, from which he has very publicly been banned under threat of arrest. If you have been following the posts to this blog on the university’s efforts to characterize him as a dangerously…
A Terrible Addendum to Thursday’s Post on Why Guns on Campus Are a Bad Idea
The Washington Post has just reported the following: “Jacob Marberger, the student at Washington College in Maryland whose disappearance prompted a suspension of classes, has been found dead in Pennsylvania, the state police there said. “The Hamburg, Pa., division of the state police said he was found Saturday afternoon at Hawk Mountain sanctuary. He died…
The Irony of it All
The pecking order: those who teach the most students are not part of the academic elite. The pecking order: those with the fewest students are the privileged, proud elite. Those who teach the most classes are paid less than those who think about teaching. The reason for the increase in academic-fiscal mismanagement is the rise of…
The Great Divide: Political Rhetoric and Political Reality
In an article for Vox, Ezra Klein challenges the Republican talking point that “America is doing terribly.” Klein points out that although the GOP presidential hopefuls may be now attracting some support with this message, it will create two longer-term problems for them: “The first is that the economy simply isn’t as bad as they’re…
AAUP Leadership in Midst of CUNY Activism
On October 20, The Excelsior, the student news site at Brooklyn College published an article titled “Brooklyn College PSC Continues to Press CUNY and the State.” At the top of the article is this photo of James Davis, who served several terms on the Executive Committee of AAUP’s national Collective Bargaining Congress, and Rudy Fichtenbaum, president…
35,000 STUDENTS TO NEW YORK GOVERNOR: INVEST IN CUNY AND SUNY
The following is a Professional Staff Congress press release: Bill Passed with Huge Bipartisan Vote Would Improve Quality of Public Higher Education Albany—More than 35,000 students are urging Governor Cuomo to sign legislation to protect educational quality at New York’s two public university systems, the City University of New York (CUNY) and the State University…
“It’s the End of the University as We Know It”
The following piece was published originally on the website of the AAUP chapter at the University of Akron. Although it addresses issues at their institution, none of those issues are specific to their institution alone. ________________________ {The title of this post] was, quite literally, the take-home message from President Scarborough’s State of the University address.…