Fall Academe Takes Stock of the COVID-19 Crisis

POSTED BY THE AAUP Fall 2020 | Vol. 106, No. 4 The fall issue of Academe takes stock of the crisis that has transformed our lives and the way we work. It features a series of reflections on faculty life during the pandemic as well as articles that look ahead to the near- and long-term challenges…

Opening Minds, Opening Doors at CSCU

BY PATTY O’NEILL The op-ed below was originally published in the CT Mirror, and we are posting it here with the permission of the author. Our communities have been shaken to their core. COVID-19 has taken loved ones, jobs have vanished, and racial injustice continues unabated. But we have also witnessed the everyday heroism of ordinary people.…

The University We Are For

POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The following statement was issued today (October 19) by the board of the University of California (UC) Berkeley Faculty Association. The University We Are For State support for public higher education in California has declined for decades: it constituted approximately one-third of the UC budget in 1990 and is about 10…

Free Speech Week and Fall 2020 Events

BY JOHN K. WILSON Free Speech Week is being held October 19-25, 2020 to celebrate freedom of speech and freedom of the press.  To help mark Free Speech Week, here are a few events (including one featuring me on October 20) being held on the week (as well as some other academic events this week…

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Faculty Politics and the Narrative of Liberal Bias

BY CHARLIE TYSON AND NAOMI ORESKES A couple of years ago, we decided to look at the question of liberal bias in the American academy. Are American colleges and universities disproportionately liberal and biased against conservatives? For most conservatives, and even some liberals, the answer is obvious. We wanted to examine whether the claim was…