POSTED BY KELLY HAND
September–October 2018 | Vol. 104, No. 5
This issue of Academe explores the theme of “otherness” in our college and university communities from a variety of perspectives. Articles discuss topics such as fighting back against the marginalization of faculty, pursuing an academic career after serving time in prison, being a woman in a male-dominated field, navigating campuses with inadequate accommodations for disabilities, and supporting students affected by anti-immigrant policies.
Follow the links in the table of contents below or read the entire issue at https://www.aaup.org/issue/september-october-2018.
FEATURES
What Is to Be Done? Or, Optimism of the Will
Can we stop being “other”?
By Leslie Bary
How the Academy Saved My Soul—And Maybe My Life
From the DOC to the PhD.
By James Ferry
Sex and the Single Feminist Science-Fiction Scholar
Don’t let them define you!
By Marleen S. Barr
How to Be Disabled in Higher Education
From the notebooks of a blind professor.
By Stephen Kuusisto
How Do We Teach Now?
Our students have changed. Have we?
By Suzanne A. Whitehead
One Chapter’s Organizing Journey (online only)
National challenges promote activism.
By Judy A. Van Wyk
The Disappointing (and Disappearing) General Faculty Meeting (online only)
Are we letting shared governance slide away?
By Arthur G. Jago
The Bubble That Won’t Burst: Subprime Crisis in Higher Education (online only)
Pushing debt on students is driving down the value of education.
By Ognjen Miljanić
Be Popular or Be Gone (online only)
Whether students like you may matter more than how much you learn.
By Athena Rayne Anderson
BOOK REVIEWS
“Colleges That Have Shall Get”
Zoe Sherman reviews Unequal Colleges in the Age of Disparity by Charles T. Clotfelter.
What Do You Know about Veterans?
Marshall W. Thomas reviews Grateful Nation by Ellen Moore.
COLUMNS
From the Editor: Others on Campus
By Aaron Barlow
Faculty Forum: Executive Orders in the Classroom
By Rachel Ida Buff
State of the Profession: Protecting the Rights of Part-Time Faculty Members
By Henry Reichman
CHAPTER PROFILE
Bowling Green State University Faculty Association
NOTA BENE
Supreme Court Decision in Janus v. AFSCME
Plymouth State Faculty Win Strong First Contract
