How the NRA Has Devolved

POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The following are two excerpts from an article compiled by the staff of the magazine The Week. The article provides a succinct overview of how the National Rifle Association has evolved, and it is worth reading in full. But I found these two excerpts (which are not sequential) especially enlightening because…

Fast Facts: Letting the Numbers Speak Volumes

POSTED BY MARTIN KICH During our protracted contract campaign, which started in January 2018, we have greatly expanded our communication strategies. The new approaches to reaching our members, others in the university community, and residents of the surrounding communities through the local news media have included the distribution, physically and digitally, of Fast Facts flyers that…

Image of the Day

POSTED BY MARTIN KICH   This photo by Eric Thayer for Reuters shows some of the 7,000 pairs of shoes lined up on the Capitol lawn to commemorate the more than 7,000 children who have been killed by guns since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012.

Noeleen McIlvenna: We Fight for the Soul of Our University

POSTED BY MARTIN KICH About a week ago, I posted Rudy Fichtenbaum’s speech rallying our chapter members at Wright State before we marched as a group across campus to an open forum being hosted by our university’s President, its chief Financial Officer, and the Chair of our board of Trustees. [See https://academeblog.org/2018/02/09/rudy-rallies-wright-state-faculty/.] What follows is…