The following is an open letter to the City Colleges of Chicago Board of Trustees by Sheldon Liebman of Wright College. Dear Chairperson Wolff, members of the Board of Trustees, and Chancellor Hyman: When I spoke to you last November, my concern in my very brief remarks had to do exclusively with the issue of…
By Steve Harris, a Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science who has taught at Saint Louis University for twenty years and is president of the SLU AAUP chapter. This is another chapter in the unfolding story of Saint Louis University, the struggle between the President and the faculty. When last we’d left our intrepid crew…
This guest post is by Alvin Burstein, Professor Emeritus at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Louisiana is the epicenter of an assault on the university as a community of scholars. The state has become notorious for eroding academic freedom and its foundation in shared governance and tenure. After the rough-shod procedures adopted by New…
This guest post is by Dennis Baron and is dated today, April 1, 2013, on his blog The Web of Language. Baron is a professor of English and Linguistics at the University of Illinois. Deniers of global warming, the big bang, and evolution have a new target: language change. Arguing that language change is just a…
This guest post is by Kathleen Rand Reed. She is “an African American anthropologist who has not only been in the trenches of higher education as an activist over a number of years, but a trench digger during my “older-woman returns-to-graduate-school” experience at the University of Maryland, College Park.” I have read the Academe article on…
This guest post is a re-post from @The Chalk Face. Author Timothy Slekar is Head of the Division of Education, Human Development and Social Sciences at Penn State Altoona. “Research shows that when expectations are raised, students rise to meet them. Adapting to higher standards and raising expectations may prove challenging, but they are the steps…
Guest Blogger Morna McDermott McNulty is an Associate Professor in the College of Education at Towson University. She blogs at Educationalchemy where this post also appears. I guess I had Tim Slekar’s clarion call to challenge EdWeek in mind when I was looking through my recent issue of Educational Researcher (ER) today. In his blog, Slekar illustrated quite…
Guest Blogger Mark Naison teaches at Fordham University and blogs at With a Brooklyn Accent. Through most of my life as a teacher, I have considered myself a builder. Not only have I worked hard to develop relationships with my students that last well beyond their time in my class, I have helped create three…
This is a guest post by Darren L. Linvill, an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Clemson University. His article, “The Bias Fallacy,” appears in the newest issue of Academe. Did you know people who like mayonnaise are more likely to be good dancers? As my undergraduate research methods students are taught, correlation…