BY HANK REICHMAN Today, after nine days on an “illegal” and “unauthorized” strike, West Virginia teachers won a powerful victory when Republican Governor Jim Justice signed legislation passed earlier in the day that will raise salaries of not only teachers but also all state employees by 5%, the largest single pay hike for public employees…
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The following is the text of an open letter to members of the U.S. Congress co-written by the March for Science and the American Psychological Association and signed by a growing number of scholarly organizations, including the AAUP. To add your signature go to https://www.marchforscience.com/gunviolence To: The Members of Congress Three…
BY HANK REICHMAN With high school students and their supporters across the country planning walkouts from class this spring to demand common sense gun control measures, it may be useful to look back on, commemorate, and learn from events that occurred 50 years ago this week. Among the many anniversaries from the remarkable year 1968,…
BY HANK REICHMAN I’ve mentioned before on this blog that, given the extraordinary events of 1968, this is a big year for 50th anniversaries. But today marks a notable 70th anniversary. On the morning of February 27, 1948, a plane traveling from Oakland to the Mexican border crashed in Los Gatos Canyon, California, about an…
BY HANK REICHMAN “We do not fear arrest.” So declared seventeen full or endowed professors at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in a letter to UNC Chancellor Carol Folt demanding the University take down Silent Sam, a Confederate monument that has been a focus of controversy on the campus since the Charlottesville events last…
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The following statement is reposted from the website of the University of Chicago chapter of the AAUP. Statement of Concerned Faculty in Support of Graduate Students United The University of Chicago’s campaign against graduate student unionization has significantly damaged the integrity of the University both morally and intellectually. In his February…
BY HANK REICHMAN This is a big year for 50th anniversaries, especially in higher education. In fact, 1968 was such an extraordinary year that it’s difficult to keep up. Earlier this month, for instance, I missed the 50th anniversary of the Orangeburg Massacre at South Carolina State University, an HBCU. This was a critical event…
BY HANK REICHMAN Today marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of W.E.B. Du Bois, one of the greatest of all American scholars and intellectuals. To commemorate the occasion and explore the lessons of DuBois’s life and work for our time, the always thought-provoking Black Perspectives blog of the African American Intellectual History Society has…
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The following is the text of a resolution adopted by the steering committee of the California Conference of the AAUP. For more on this issue see the November 2017 resolution of the Academic Senate of the California State University (ASCSU), “On the Development and Implementation of Executive Orders 1100 (Revised) and…
BY HANK REICHMAN No doubt like every other reader of this blog I’ve been awestruck and inspired by the response of the students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, to the horrific mass shooting that struck down 17 of their classmates. They have spoken out boldly, demonstrated visibly and loudly, and organized…