BY STEVEN LUBET It probably should have occurred to me sooner that my university filters outgoing email for various terms of service violations such as catfishing and pornography. Never could I have imagined, however, that a third-party vendor had been empowered to “quarantine” outgoing faculty email based on its content, without ever informing the sender.…
BY CATHRYN BAILEY I was sitting in my high school French class the first time I got called to the principal’s office. I don’t recall what the “controversial” newspaper story was about, but we student journalists explored issues such as drunk driving, race relations, and graduation requirements. I don’t even remember if I had actually…
BY FACULTY, STAFF, AND STUDENTS AT US JESUIT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES We, the faculty, staff and students of Jesuit Colleges and Universities from throughout the United States, are concerned by the rash of austerity-driven layoffs, firings and program eliminations occurring and under consideration by Jesuit institutions across the United States. These measures are particularly troubling…
BY DONNA MURCH Tonight Rutgers AAUP-AFT will hold the first session of a new initiative we’ve been working on for months. In the tradition of Ella Baker, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and the 1960s civil rights movement, we are setting up a Freedom School for political education and outreach. Our first event on Thursday,…
BY DAVID A. VAREL These days, as any job seeker will tell you, universities are prioritizing diversity on their faculties. The way they are conceptualizing it has expanded dramatically over time, now including not only race and gender but also sexual orientation, disability, military service, and many other categories. Yet one omission is especially striking:…
BY IRENE MULVEY AAUP president Irene Mulvey sent the following email to members on November 4, 2020: Election Day has passed, and, as expected, we are still awaiting the outcome while states continue to count ballots. The outcome of this election could have a profound impact on our nation, our local communities, and our campuses.…
BY STEVEN LUBET Steven Lubet is Williams Memorial Professor and Director of the Bartlit Center for Trial Advocacy at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. A version of this post appeared at The Faculty Lounge on October 28. It was deeply objectionable when Zoom and other networking platforms blocked Leila Khaled’s webinars at San Francisco…
BY ASHLEY DENNIS This book review was originally published in Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), and is republished with their permission. As the U.S. reckons with systemic racism in the wake of global protests over the murder of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, reparations for Black people has…
BY MARY A. HERMANN Research, personal experiences, and watching our academic mother colleagues navigate the COVID-19 pandemic inspired the article in the fall issue of Academe, “COVID-19, Academic Mothers, and Opportunities for the Academy,” that I coauthored with Cheryl Neale-McFall. We wrote the article late last spring when we were optimistic about the length of…