BY JOHN K. WiLSON Tony Woodlief in the Wall Street Journal on Aug. 30 offered a conservative critique of free speech absolutism, claiming that “the intolerance prevailing on college campuses isn’t the result of too little speech. It’s a consequence of too much speech.” Woodlief represents a disturbing trend on the right, where a sneer…
POSTED BY THE AAUP On August 23, AAUP President Irene Mulvey advocated for community health, safety, and faculty involvement in university decision-making in an interview with Michael Holmes on CNN. Watch the clip and read the transcript below. HOLMES: Irene Mulvey is president of the American Association of University Professors. She joins me now from…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH This event will feature speakers from Ohio, but the problems being faced by higher ed institutions in Ohio are clearly not exclusive to our state. So the event may clearly be of broader interest. What created the current crisis in public higher education? Where does all the money spent on education…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Morning Consult has released the results of its recent polling on whether the BCS playoffs should be held now that two of the Power 5 conferences have postponed their seasons. Of more interest, I think, is the related polling on whether the Big 10 and the PAC-12 made the right decision…
BY DANIELLE FUENTES MORGAN Earlier today, Danielle Fuentes Morgan tweeted the following thread, which is posted with her permission. Morgan is an assistant professor of English at Santa Clara University, and the author of the forthcoming book, Laughing to Keep from Dying: African American Satire in the Twenty-First Century (University of Illinois Press, Nov. 2020). Santa…
BY THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY AAUP The following op-ed was published in The Lantern, the student newspaper at the Ohio State University, on August 18. In perhaps her first address to the entire Ohio State community Aug. 11, 2020, President Kristina M. Johnson spoke of our shared challenge to return to campus life in a…
BY HANK REICHMAN Responding earlier this month on this blog to an article by Professor Stephen Gavazzi, I noted the growing tendency of governing boards — and, in the public sector, legislatures and the governors who usually appoint those boards — “to tilt the scales against the faculty and, arguably, against the common interest of…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Ten years ago, Joel O’Dorisio was campaigning for a faculty union at Bowling Green State University. Ten years later, he has been campaigning to be the next State Senator for Ohio’s 2nd District. Some political candidates “talk the talk” of support for public education and labor, but BGSU Art Professor Joel…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Consider the following items: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, one of the largest schools in the country to bring students to campus for in-person teaching, said Monday that it will pivot to all-remote instruction for undergraduates after testing showed a pattern of rapid spread of the novel coronavirus. The…
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN Last week, John C. Eastman , Professor of law at Chapman University and senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, posted an op-ed on the Newsweek web page arguing that Sen. Kamala Harris is not a natural-born citizen and hence ineligible for the presidency since her parents were not citizens at the…