This post does not represent an AAUP endorsement of the events being sponsored by the National Humanities Alliance. I myself am not even a member of this organization. But in a large number of posts to this blog, a number of contributors have made the case for the value of the Humanities, and this organization…
This past week, Danny Ledonne’s documentary Playing Columbine was scheduled to be shown and discussed in a public forum at Adams State University, from which he has very publicly been banned under threat of arrest. If you have been following the posts to this blog on the university’s efforts to characterize him as a dangerously…
The Washington Post has just reported the following: “Jacob Marberger, the student at Washington College in Maryland whose disappearance prompted a suspension of classes, has been found dead in Pennsylvania, the state police there said. “The Hamburg, Pa., division of the state police said he was found Saturday afternoon at Hawk Mountain sanctuary. He died…
In an article for Vox, Ezra Klein challenges the Republican talking point that “America is doing terribly.” Klein points out that although the GOP presidential hopefuls may be now attracting some support with this message, it will create two longer-term problems for them: “The first is that the economy simply isn’t as bad as they’re…
On October 20, The Excelsior, the student news site at Brooklyn College published an article titled “Brooklyn College PSC Continues to Press CUNY and the State.” At the top of the article is this photo of James Davis, who served several terms on the Executive Committee of AAUP’s national Collective Bargaining Congress, and Rudy Fichtenbaum, president…
The following piece was published originally on the website of the AAUP chapter at the University of Akron. Although it addresses issues at their institution, none of those issues are specific to their institution alone. ________________________ {The title of this post] was, quite literally, the take-home message from President Scarborough’s State of the University address.…
I don’t wish to exaggerate the illustrative implications of a single incident, but the following story from the Washington Post does suggests many of the most obvious reasons why permitting guns on our campuses is a dangerous idea: “Washington College closed its Maryland campus Tuesday morning until further notice as police and the FBI intensified…
Apparently today has been declared by someone to be national Take a Hike Day. I am quite certain that this designation of the day is intended to encourage people to step out into the great outdoors–to take deep drafts of the crisp Autumn air into their lungs as they exercise and to bring into their…
The consideration of a campus-carry bill is being accelerated through the Ohio House. Ohio House Bill 48 is scheduled for a vote on the House floor tomorrow, November 17. If you are an Ohio resident, please contact your State Representative ASAP using our form [https://actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-your-state-rep-to-vote-no-on-hb-48?source=email&] to tell them that you oppose this bill. HB 48…
Last Friday, Inc. published an article on the Salaita settlement. Written by Joseph Steinberg, the article is titled “How a Single Social Media Blunder Cost a University $2 Million.” It provides advice on how institutions can avoid having to make similar settlements and avoid even more costly litigation and potentially larger settlements. But it makes no…