POSTED BY KELLY HAND
May–June 2018 | Vol. 104, No. 3
Contributors to the new issue of Academe remind us that even in the face of attacks against higher education from the outside, it is from the inside that we must work to keep our colleges and universities the best in the world. Articles include discussions of ageism, student evaluations, women’s writing groups, faculty senate leadership, reference inflation, and the dominance of standardized English.
Follow the links in the table of contents below or view the issue at https://www.aaup.org/issue/may-june-2018
FEATURES
The Monument and the Wrecking Crew
Ageism in the academy.
By Margaret Morganroth Gullette
Student Evaluations of Teaching Are Not Valid
It is time to stop using SET scores in personnel decisions.
By John W. Lawrence
Surveys of Student Opinion: Portal for Prejudice? (member login required)
A perspective on bias in evaluations.
By Ronald Cordero
Addressing Gendered Practices Through Women’s Writing Groups
A strategy for reducing gender disparity in research universities.
By Joyce Alexander, Laura Plummer, and Jane McLeod
Advice for a New Faculty Senate Chair
Administering a faculty governance body is not for the faint of heart.
By Ben Trachtenberg
Some Historical Perspectives on Reference Inflation (member login required)
Do letters of recommendation mean anything?
By Peter N. Stearns
Contesting Standardized English
Should we be insisting on a common dialect?
By Missy Watson
Autopsy of a Retirement Plan (online only)
How adequate are defined-contribution faculty retirement plans?
By James W. Russell
A World Gone Mad (online only)
James Buchanan and the origins of the radical right’s attack on higher education.
By Nancy MacLean
BOOK REVIEWS
Free Speech and Inclusion
Henry Reichman reviews two books titled Free Speech on Campus, one by Erwin Chemerinsky and Howard Gillman and the other by Sigal R. Ben-Porath.
The “Great Game” on American Campuses
Karen M. Paget reviews Spy Schools by Daniel Golden.
COLUMNS
From the Editor: “But Let Us Cultivate Our Garden”
By Aaron Barlow
Legal Watch: Discipline for Online Statements Finally Hits the Courts
By Aaron Nisenson
State of the Profession: The Campus Free-Speech Movement and the AAUP
By Michael C. Behrent
From the President: What Can We Learn from the Teachers in West Virginia
By Rudy H. Fichtenbaum
CONFERENCE PROFILE
NOTA BENE
Investigation at University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Confronting Campus Free-Speech Legislation
Resources on Turning Point USA
AAUP Calls for Sensible Gun-Control Measures
Governance Committee Responds to Developments in Wisconsin
AAUP BUSINESS
Developments Related to Association Censure and Sanction
Do you think that even though Jarrar’s abusing a public suicide hotline was unethical, but not illegal, and that she shouldn’t be held responsible for calls that were or weren’t placed by others? I think so!