This resolution is the first of four presented and unanimously endorsed at The Ohio Conference annual meeting on November 7. Opposition to House Bill 160 Whereas the Ohio Conference AAUP has concerns over textbook costs; Whereas House Bill 160 does not address how we might be able to control those costs; Whereas the royalties…
Last night on The Nightly Show, Larry Wilmore reported on Ohio’s rejection of a ballot issue that would have legalized marijuana. Focusing on Ohio’s electoral importance as a presidential swing state, Wilmore described Ohio as “America’s designated driver” and suggested that, instead of indulging with weed, Ohioans prefer to engage in the state’s favorite recreational…
Here is the e-mail from the Chief of the Campus Police at Adams State University to the campus community: From: Adams State University Police Department <pgrohowski@adams.edu> Date: Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 8:05 AM Subject: Message from Chief Grohowski Open letter to campus staff, students and faculty, I want to take this opportunity to bring…
This post will be the first in a series treating the decision of the administration of Adams State University to ban Danny Ledonne, a former adjunct faculty member, from the campus– under threat of immediate arrest should he violate the ban. In this post, I will provide an outline of the events that led to…
First Item: Nation of Change has published a very succinct overview of the Koch family’s various foundations, an article that includes links to further and fuller information on each of the entities. Written by Dave Levinthal of the Center for Public Integrity, the article is available at: http://www.nationofchange.org/2015/10/31/the-koch-brothers-foundation-network-explained/. Second Item: A website called Inspiration…
In a piece published last week by Huffington Post, Laurie Jones and Wanda Evans-Brewer ask and answer that rhetorical question in promoting a new short film called Professors in Poverty. The last three paragraphs of the article are particularly strong: “The sub-contractor business model is becoming increasingly popular in our “shared economy” society. But is…
I think that Carbondale, Illinois, the home of Southern Illinois University, must have just about the most options for celebrating Halloween of any college town in the United States. If you want the full list of events related to the holiday, go to the events page on the website maintained by CarbondaleRocks.com: http://www.carbondalerocks.com/taxonomy/term/191. Even if…
In one of my recent reviews of recent news items on higher education [https://academeblog.org/2015/10/23/u-s-higher-education-news-from-september-29-2015/], I opened with an item on the elimination of continuing contracts for faculty at Florida State College. Now the member of the college’s board of trustees who initiated that change of policy has been emboldened to advance a proposal that faculty…
Here is how ThinkProgress has summarized this completely counter-intuitive situation: There is some drama surrounding this upcoming event. And it has to do with the debate’s location — the University of Colorado Boulder, or CU-Boulder. Since September, there’s been an twinge of animosity among some students who claim they were misled about what housing a…
Two days ago, Hank Reichman did a post on the anti-science bias on the House Science Committee. In the Ohio House, we now have a parallel situation. Here is how Diane Ravitch has described the new chairperson of the House Education Committee: “State Representative Andrew Brenner recently became chairman of Ohio’s House Education Committee. His…