POSTED BY MARTIN KICH In an article for CNBC, Abigail Hess reports on why international students are applying to and enrolling at Canadian colleges and universities instead of U.S. institutions. Hess provides the following statistics: The American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers surveyed over 250 American colleges and universities and found that 39…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH This resolution has passed the Senate without debate and with Unanimous Consent. It now goes to President Trump for his signature. In the Senate of the United States Mr. Warner (For Himself, Mr. Kaine, Mr. Gardner, And Mr. Isakson) Introduced the Following Joint Resolution. JOINT RESOLUTION Condemning the violence and…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Writing for IndyWeek, which serves the Research Triangle region of North Carolina, Erica Hellerstein reports: After months of contentious back-and-forth, the UNC Board of Governors voted this morning [Friday, September 8] to ban the UNC Center for Civil Rights from doing legal work on behalf of the state’s poor and minority…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Resolution 2017-9. On the Proposal to Bar UNC Centers and Institutes from Engaging in Legal Actions The Faculty Executive Committee resolves: We respectfully urge members of the UNC Board of Governors to vote “no” on the proposed change to Section 400.7 of the UNC Policy Manual entitled “Involvement of Centers and…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Dear Mr. President: Reproach and censure in the strongest possible terms are necessary following your support of the hate groups and terrorists who killed and injured fellow Americans in Charlottesville. The false equivalences you push cannot stand. The Administrations refusal to quickly and unequivocally condemn the cancer of hatred only further…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The following are videos of the candlelight vigil at the University of Virginia campus: https://youtu.be/cITuxcGlAr8 https://youtu.be/mm7B4U6745k https://youtu.be/oYjshqCuyTw https://youtu.be/KDuqCpOCqEM https://youtu.be/extOrNa42h4 This next video is from Vice and documents the White Nationalist rally in Charlottesville; It highlights the travesty of Trump’s false equivalency: https://youtu.be/P54sP0Nlngg. This final video is from Disney Studios. Made 1947,…
BY AARON BARLOW The other day, in a post on student agency, I complained again about the erzatz meritocracy of our star system of education. I tend to focus my attention in this area more on the classroom itself, where the best students get the most attention and support, though I do mention that the…
BY AARON BARLOW A decade or more ago, at a faculty party in New York City, I listened in as a diverse group of faculty spoke casually and disparagingly of “hillbillies,” “rednecks” and “white trash.” I reminded them that they were speaking of my own people (my ancestry is completely Appalachian), though they shouldn’t really be…
BY RYAN RIDEAU Guest blogger Ryan Rideau is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Higher Education program at Virginia Tech. I am currently working on my dissertation that examines the experiences of non-tenure track faculty members of color at predominantly White institutions of higher education. I am seeking participants for this dissertation. Participation in this study…
BY STEPHEN KUUSISTO The writer Quintan Anna Wikswo has written an “Open Letter to the AWP Regarding Disability Rights” which you can read here: http://bumblemoth.com/open-letter-to-awp-regarding-disability-rights/ If you’re not an academic writer—a poet, novelist, short fiction writer, playwright, or non-fictionist who makes her living teaching you might not be aware of the AWP, more comprehensively known…