BY MARK HULSETHER Guest blogger, Mark Hulsether, a professor in the department of religious studies at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, originally published this essay on his blog, MBE: Mark’s Blogging Experiment, on February 26. We are posting it here with his permission. Yesterday I read this piece in the New York Times by Molly Worthen. Then I made the mistake…
BY THE TENNESSEE TECH UNIVERSITY AAUP CHAPTER The Tennessee Tech University chapter of the AAUP passed the following resolution yesterday about a controversy concerning allegations of research misconduct and conflict of interest. WHEREAS a chief purpose of AAUP has always been the protection of shared governance, which requires academic matters in the university to be…
BY LISA MINNICK Lisa Minnick, president of the Western Michigan University AAUP chapter and a member of the executive committee of the AAUP’s national Council, posted this letter to WMU faculty about national student walkouts planned for March 14 and April 20 on the WMU-AAUP blog website yesterday. Dear colleagues, As you are probably aware,…
BY NATHAN S. WEBSTER As a soldier in the US Army, I served in Iraq during 1991’s Desert Storm. So I understand institutional loyalty. I understand sacrifice in pursuit of a larger mission, and pride in a strong community tethered by common purpose. In recent weeks, the University of New Hampshire has gone in a…
BY TARIQ KHAN My name is Tariq Khan. I am a father of three young children, a U.S. Air Force Veteran, and a PhD candidate in History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I spend most of my time juggling parenting duties with researching and writing my dissertation, though I can sometimes be found…
BY SAMANTHA EYLER-DRISCOLL As Senior Editor at the Stigler Center and its publication ProMarket, and one of six members of the ProMarket editorial board, I have opposed since its inception the proposal by my colleague Luigi Zingales to provide a platform to Steve Bannon at the Stigler Center, as well as the use of ProMarket…
BY MARIAH QUINN An article from Breitbart yesterday offers us a timely look at how targeted harassment happens and how it is perpetuated. The misrepresentations start in the headline. The piece, “American Association of University Professors Defends Prof Who Called for the Death of Congressman Scalise,” focused on the work the AAUP is doing to…
BY DAVID PALUMBO-LIU This essay by Stanford professor David Palumbo-Liu originally was published in the Stanford Daily. As anyone who has carefully read the U.S. Constitution knows, the right to free speech is a negative freedom — it protects us from any attempt by our government to stifle the expression of our ideas. The underlying…
BY UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE LECTURERS UNITED-AAUP Below is a press release issued today by the University of New Hampshire Lecturers United–AAUP. Contact: Catherine Moran Phone: 401-439-1067 Date: Jan 19, 2018 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Durham, NH— Some 160 years of teaching experience will be lost to the University of New Hampshire because of a round…
BY CHRISTOPHER NEWFIELD Christopher Newfield is Professor of English at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is the author of several books and many articles on higher education, including most recently The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them. He serves on the advisory board for Academe. The…