Racism, Policing, and Santa Clara University

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…

Forty Years of Faculty Reports

BY EDWIN BATTISTELLA Like many universities, mine has an annual faculty report, which goes to the chair, the division director, and the provost. Today, the reports are electronic rather than typed, but during the nearly four decades I have taught at various universities, the basic categories in the reports have remained: teaching, scholarship, and service.…

Library Collections and Coronavirus Capitalism

BY DAVID EIFLER AND MARGARET PHILLIPS When universities abruptly shut down in-person instruction in the spring, academic libraries followed suit.  Librarians and other university front line workers applauded these decisions that prioritized the health and safety of staff during this unprecedented public health crisis.  And libraries continued to fulfill many of their service missions in…