BY HANK REICHMAN As the academic year comes to a close all eyes are now turned toward the Fall. Will campuses be able to open up again? Will all teaching remain remote or will it become hybrid? And, heck, what about college football? But there are even larger long-term questions. The economic crisis engendered by…
BY MARTIN KICH Writing for Politico, Juan Perez has reported the results of a poll conducted by the magazine in collaboration with Morning Consult: Forty-one percent of Americans said it’s a bad idea to reopen K-12 schools in the fall, concluded the online survey of close to 2,000 registered voters, while 44 percent felt it…
BY JANE S. GABIN Everyone agrees: college will never be the same. Even before the pandemic, rapid change had become the pattern. Remember when college applications were handwritten? It wasn’t so long ago. Over the past three decades, colleges have become more like businesses and the process of applying for admission to them has become,…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH This was a very nice surprise for our graduates and a very nice moment in the very uneven recent history of our university. I’m here to say congratulations. Congratulations to you chosen ones. I am calling you the chosen ones because you have been chosen in many ways. First, by the…
BY MARTIN KICH This is the lead item in a news item from the Far-Right media site World Net Daily: If you cannot read the line right before “Read More,” it says: “Finally someone with all-American blood has the guts to stand up against government orders.” Decades ago, when I spent more time on barstools,…
BY MARTIN KICH This item appeared in yesterday’s Morning Education newsletter from Politico: NCAA LOSES ANTITRUST LAWSUIT: The unanimous decision from three judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals means that the NCAA must allow costly educational benefits and even cash awards for student-athletes. — The ruling falls short of the push for college athletes to…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH In an article published on Saturday evening by the Washington Post, Dan Baltz has much more thoroughly presented basically the same case that I was attempting to make in my post from last Friday. Here are some selected passages from the beginning of Baltz’s article: The government’s halting response to the coronavirus pandemic…
BY THE AAUP TITLE IX SUBCOMMITTEE The AAUP released on May 15 a response, prepared by a subcommittee of Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure and the Committee on Gender and Sexuality in the Academic Profession, to new Title IX regulations. Below is an executive summary of the response. The full response is available…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The collective effort expressed in this pledge has been organized by AAUP Advocacy Chapters at Ohio University, Ohio State University, and Miami University. We pledge to demand genuine shared governance—visible and tangible involvement in decisions affecting the academic mission, at our own schools and all over Ohio. We pledge to demand…
BY MARTIN KICH “The NCAA, the presidents of the universities, the Power 5 conference commissioners, the athletic directors need to be meeting right now and we need to start coming up with answers. In my opinion, if we have to bring our players back, test them. They’re all in good shape. They’re all 18, 19,…