BY HANK REICHMAN On Monday, the Association of University Heads of Israel sent a strongly-worded letter to Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan warning of damage caused to Israel by the ministry’s decision to bar American student Lara Alqasem from entering the country, the liberal Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports. The letter came a day after…
BY HANK REICHMAN Last week three scholars published an article reporting on how they had submitted over twenty fraudulent and purportedly ridiculous nonsense papers to various journals in gender and diversity studies. Seven were accepted, four were published online, and three were in process when the authors “had to take the project public prematurely and…
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The following is the text of a press statement released on Friday by the Purdue University chapter of the AAUP. It is followed by the full text of the resolution passed by the chapter. Members of Purdue University’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) passed a resolution at…
BY HANK REICHMAN Yesterday the sad news arrived of the passing of Bob O’Neil, founder of the Thomas Jefferson Center for Free Expression, former president of the University of Virginia and of the University of Wisconsin system, and prominent First Amendment scholar. Bob served three terms as general counsel of the AAUP and was chair…
BY HANK REICHMAN On Friday, September 28, about 100 California community college faculty members gathered at Berkeley City College for a day-long conference on academic freedom co-sponsored by the Faculty Association of the California Community Colleges Educational Institute (FACCC-EI) and the AAUP Foundation. The conference highlighted the growing importance of academic freedom in community colleges…
BY HANK REICHMAN Yesterday, John Wilson posted a comment on my post “Standing with Professional Ethics” that merits a longer response than is appropriate for a simple comment. I also want to use this opportunity to reply to another response to my post, which came from an AAUP leader via private email, and to make…
BY HANK REICHMAN Yesterday a group of faculty supporters of the BDS movement posted to this blog a statement, “Standing with John Cheney-Lippold,” which called on readers to support University of Michigan Professor Cheney-Lippold’s decision not to write a letter of recommendation for a student seeking to study for a semester in Israel. They offer…
BY HANK REICHMAN Recently the AAUP and others have been calling attention to the growing phenomenon of targeted online (and direct) harassment of faculty members, which has become a major threat to the academic freedom of everyone in higher education. In January 2017, the AAUP issued a statement noting how individual faculty members “have been…
BY HANK REICHMAN The Trump administration’s disregard for and assault on science have been well documented by the AAUP, the Union of Concerned Scientists, and others. Now President Trump himself and his FEMA administrator, Brock Long, have attacked the credibility of a study by George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health, which found…
BY HANK REICHMAN A little more than a year ago the Chancellor of the California State University system (CSU) issued two executive orders governing general education and remediation. The directives, prepared and released without appropriate faculty input, were immediately controversial. In October 2017, the California Faculty Association (CFA), an AAUP-affiliate representing over 27,000 CSU faculty…