BY RUDY FICHTENBAUM It has been an incredible week at Wright State University. The weather has been terrible (temperatures in the single digits followed by snow and freezing rain).But everyday this week, hundreds of faculty have been on the picket line from 8am to 6pm at the four main entrances to the campus. Our faculty…
BY PAMELA A. SCHULZE Pamela A. Schulze, president of the Akron AAUP chapter, submitted the following open letter in support of the faculty at Wright State University, who are striking for quality higher education. I am writing this letter as President of the University of Akron Chapter of the American Association of University Professors, which…
BY GRETCHEN MCNAMARA The following blog post, by a member of AAUP-Wright State University, which has filed an intent-to-strike notice, originally appeared as a testimonial on Facebook. We are reposting it here with the author’s permission. This is my story. And the story of many….they are my friends and colleagues. In 2007 after earning a…
BY ROBERT BIONAZ After four-plus years, our First Amendment lawsuit against the unethical practices of the lead defendant, former Chicago State University president Wayne Watson, finally ended with the school agreeing to pay $650,000 in attorney’s fees and damages. Additionally, Chicago State likely paid close to $1 million to the private law firm that defended…
BY SUSAN E. RAMLO Now in my twenty-fifth year of teaching at a public urban university in the Midwest, I research subjective viewpoints mainly using a somewhat obscure, eighty-year-old methodology that has been gaining popularity. Q methodology (Q) is unique in its ability to scientifically study divergent viewpoints in a way that distinguishes and describes…
BY JEFFREY SOMMERS The following open letter to the chancellor, provost, and faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) is reposted by permission from the blog of the UWM AAUP chapter. Jeffrey Sommers is Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies and Global Studies at UWM. Dear Chancellor Mone, Provost Britz, and Colleagues, I could…
BY RUDY FICHTENBAUM AND PAUL DAVIS At their November 2018 meetings, the Council of the AAUP and the AAUP-CBC Executive Committee voted overwhelmingly to move forward with changes to our shared organizational structure. The changes, should they be approved at the June 2019 annual meeting, will streamline our governance and organizational structure. As is the…
BY LLUIS DE YZAGUIRRE I MAURA In the last few weeks, academics from all over the world have expressed their deep concern about the decision by the Spanish judiciary to prosecute two political science scholars and two law scholars based at three different universities in Barcelona. To draw attention to this fact they have published…
BY RICHARD GRUSIN The following is reposted with permission from the blog of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee AAUP chapter. Richard Grusin is Distinguished Professor of English at UWM. On Pearl Harbor Day, 2018, the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents dropped its own economic bomb on the people of Wisconsin, approving raises ranging from $14,421…
BY LISA MINNICK On the sixth anniversary of anti-union “right to work” legislation being signed into law in Michigan, we share this letter to Western Michigan University faculty from WMU-AAUP president Lisa Minnick, who is stepping down after serving in the role since 2013. The letter originally appeared on the chapter’s website, where there is…