Yesterday more than a thousand California State University (CSU) faculty members, students, and their supporters marched through Long Beach, California to the CSU Office of the Chancellor, where the CSU Board of Trustees was meeting, to rally and voice their support for the California Faculty’s Association’s “Fight for Five.” After years of declining real salaries,…
The following is taken from a media release issued by the AAUP: On November 17, the American Association of University Professors released a report on severe departures from generally accepted standards of academic governance at Union County College in Cranford, New Jersey. The report was written by former AAUP president Robert A. Gorman, an emeritus…
Tomorrow members and supporters of the AAUP-affiliated California Faculty Association will gather at the California State University Chancellor’s Office, where the CSU Board of Trustees will be meeting, to urge the trustees and their Chancellor, Timothy White, to meet the faculty’s demand for a much-belated and even more-deserved salary increase. It’s not too late to…
The following post is by Michael Meranze, Professor of History at UCLA, and is reposted (with some minor clarifications of terms for non-Californians) from Michael’s and Chris Newfield’s Remaking the University blog. Since the ten-campus UC system is the largest research university system in the U.S., its troubled finances should be of some interest to…
A propos of Sen. Marco Rubio’s ungrammatical comment that “we need more welders and less (sic) philosophers,” the American Philosophical Association has posted an intriguing list of prominent figures in government and politics, activism, academia, business, religion, writing, news and journalism, arts and entertainment, and sports who either majored in or otherwise studied (sometimes at…
Among the 129 fatalities in the horrific and abominable terrorist attacks in Paris was Nohemi Gonzalez, a student at California State University, Long Beach, who was in Paris on a study abroad semester. Last night, hundreds gathered in Long Beach to honor her memory. The following account is taken from the CSU Long Beach website: …
The following is reposted from the AAUP website: On November 13, 2015, the AAUP filed with the American Federation of Teachers an amicus brief before the US Supreme Court arguing that the payment of agency fees by non-members in collective bargaining unions to support union representation is constitutional. The case started when the plaintiffs, sponsored…
The following brief statement, approved by AAUP Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure on October 30, pulls together existing AAUP policies on academic due process for non-tenure-track full-time faculty members after seven years of service. Academic Due Process for Non-Tenure-Track Full-Time Faculty Members* after Seven Years of Service Since its founding in 1915, the…
The growing trend toward secret presidential searches and the emerging tendency of governing boards to appoint corporate executives or politicians with no experience in higher education has gained considerable attention on this blog (see for examples the University of Iowa and the University of Missouri, the latter with well-known disastrous consequences). One recent example is…