BY MARTIN KICH Part 1 To stave off some of the assumptions and accusations that my previous posts on intercollegiate athletics have provoked, I want to make clear that for five decades, I have been an avid fan of college basketball and, although somewhat less enthused about college football, I have tuned into the games…
BY JOHN K. WILSON Pippa Norris of Harvard has an interesting new paper on the views of political scientists globally, “Closed minds? Is a ‘cancel culture’ stifling academic freedom and intellectual debate in political science?” It’s based on a global survey of political science professors, World of Political Science, 2019, in which scholars were asked:…
BY HANK REICHMAN Early today the following tweet from Professor Stephen Gavazzi, who teaches in the education school at Ohio State, came up on my Twitter timeline: A bit flattered to be asked my opinion, I quickly read the essay and concluded that given the restrictions of the Twitter format any response on that medium…
BY JOHN K. WILSON On August 7, I happened to read a syndicated column at FrontPageMag by Walter E. Williams, a legendary conservative intellectual and the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University. One paragraph shocked me: Leaders of ISIS and the Taliban have called the recent U.S. trend of angry…
BY BRANDON RODRIGUEZ Brandon Rodriguez is a native New Yorker whose family migrated from Puerto Rico. He grew up in the South Bronx and attends Guttman Community College, which is part of City University of New York (CUNY). This essay is reposted with permission from the Activist History Review blog. My world changed in early…
BY IRENE MULVEY AAUP president Irene Mulvey issued the following statement today: The coronavirus pandemic has impacted us all—as teachers, as researchers, as workers, and as individuals. But one thing remains constant: the public good that higher education faculty provide. AAUP clinical, medical research, nursing, and health professions faculty, along with staff and students, have…
BY MARTIN KICH The current situation at the University of Akron is extreme but nonetheless illustrative of the situations developing at many of our college and university campuses across the state of Ohio and the nation. At Akron, the administration and Board are attempting to use a force majeure clause in the faculty contract to…
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN On June 19th, 2020, University of Chicago President Robert Zimmer and Provost Ka Yee C. Lee sent an email to the University community on the occasion of Juneteenth inviting the University and its members to use the day to “learn and listen, to examine history, to challenge assumptions, and to explore…
BY MALAKA SHWAIKH AND REBECCA RUTH GOULD February 2017 was a watershed month for the Palestine advocacy movement in the UK, although we only later came to realize its significance in our own lives. That month, amid a wave of cancellations of events critical of Israel, we were smeared in mainstream and local print and…
BY THE COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE OF AKRON-AAUP The members of the University of Akron Chapter of The American Association of University Professors have voted to not ratify the proposed collective bargaining agreement with The University of Akron Board of Trustees. The electronic balloting process ended at 1pm, Wednesday August 5th. The University’s Board of Trustees had…