BY KELLY HAND Over the past few months, Academe Blog has published many posts—by contributing editors, other regular bloggers, and guest bloggers—about the pandemic and its impact on higher education. Our collective preoccupation with this topic is not surprising, since we all live with the daily consequences of the pandemic, even as it has become…
POSTED BY THE AAUP Clinical faculty at the AAUP-BHSNJ chapter need your support to win a fair contract after two years of bargaining. These members’ work on the frontlines of the COVID crisis, including work on developing a COVID-19 saliva test, is a real-life example of higher education for the common good. While Rutgers University’s…
POSTED BY THE AAUP Increasingly violent clashes between student protesters and police at universities in Hong Kong raise grave concerns for the American Association of University Professors. On November 17, police laid siege to the campus of Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where they employed tear gas, rubber bullets, and water cannons against students, journalists, and…
BY STEVE BUTTES Last week the AAUP launched its Faculty Anti-Privatization Network (FAN) week of action and shared new resources to raise awareness and build faculty solidarity around the increasing risks that online programs are posing to the academic freedom, shared governance, educational quality, and reputation of public and private institutions across the country. This…
POSTED BY KELLY HAND The new issue of Academe—guest-edited by Henry Reichman, chair of the AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure and a contributing editor for Academe Blog—takes a critical look at the mounting global assault on academic freedom. Articles focus on threats to socially engaged scholars abroad, attacks on gender studies in Europe…
BY EVA SWIDLER Although the media frenzy is already fading, public attention this spring was recently focused yet again in deeply unflattering ways on higher education as admissions scandals rocked elite universities in the US. Predictably, observers noted that, problematic though it might be to nakedly buy one’s way into competitive institutions with cash payments,…
POSTED BY KELLY HAND The new issue of Academe highlights the power of faculty to build strength on their campuses by organizing through AAUP advocacy and collective bargaining chapters. Articles focus on presidential searches, private donor influence, adjunct faculty activism, risks of gun violence, retirement, and other topics. Follow the links in the table of contents…
POSTED BY KELLY HAND Winter 2019 | Vol. 105, No. 1 This issue of Academe addresses the questions of speech that have fueled the culture wars on college campuses in recent years. Articles discuss the assault on the public mission of higher education; the implications of a polarized political climate for faculty members, administrators, and students; and…
POSTED BY AAUP STAFF A clear majority of faculty at the University of New Mexico have declared their support for unionization in an official election petition filed today with the UNM Labor Management Relations Board. The UNM bargaining unit, comprising more than 1,600 full- and part-time faculty on five campuses—UNM’s main campus, in Albuquerque; UNM-Gallup;…