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How States Are Voting in the 2020 Election

POSTED BY MARTIN KICH This color-coded map indicating the proportionate number of votes for each state was created for a detailed article published by the New York Times. A somewhat more up-to-date by conventional map has been produced by Axios:   The following table has also been created by Axios, and the article that includes…

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The Conflict over the Conflict

BY ERNST BENJAMIN Just as Kenneth S. Stern was completing his new book, The Conflict over the Conflict: The Israel/Palestine Campus Debate, he discovered that President Trump had signed an executive order adopting the “working definition of anti-semitism” and making it applicable to enforcement of the Civil Rights Act Title VI. Stern warns that the…

Webinars!

BY HANK REICHMAN Two webinars in which I had the pleasure and privilege of participating are now available to view as video recordings on the web. Here is the first, originally scheduled as a live presentation at the annual conference of the National Center for for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and…

I Guess That Outrage Just Ain’t What It Used to Be

BY MARTIN KICH You may remember (it was less than a decade ago, though that hardly seems possible) when this salute with a hand holding a styrofoam coffee cup was considered an unforgivable insult to our military: The talking heads were out in force to mock and to denounce the president for his failure to…

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Academic Freedom under Siege at CU Boulder

BY DON ERON The following essay was posted on Sept. 8 at the Daily Camera, the Boulder, Colorado newspaper, and is reposted with permission. Academic freedom has had a rough go of it lately at the University of Colorado Boulder. Nobody seems to like it. Chancellor Phil DiStefano finds it necessary but disagreeable, at least…

End Misspending in Higher Ed: Presentations at the Forum

POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The forum, sponsored by the SaveOhioHigherEd coalition of AAUP chapters across several Midwestern states, included six presentations: Jill Galvin, an English Professor at Ohio State University, made the “Introduction.” Cathy Wagner, an English professor at Miami University, provided an “Overview.” Abby Stidham, a student at the University of Cincinnati, spoke on…

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Is the Managed Campus a Graveyard?

BY RACHEL IDA BUFF  This post is excerpted from the introduction to volume 11 of the AAUP’s Journal of Academic Freedom. The entire volume will be available on September 22.  The managed campus and the governed campus represent opposing visions of higher education. In practice and by definition, the managed campus is antithetical to both…