Salaries and Meaningful Employment
In a post yesterday, I shared a list from PayScale of the 20 job categories for college graduates with the least variation between average starting salaries and average salaries at mid-career. What follows is another list derived from the PayScale data, of the 20 job categories for college graduates for which the highest percentage of…
The Ohio Conference Unanimously Endorses a Resolution Proposing a Legislatively Mandated Ratio of Full-Time Faculty to Administrators
This resolution is the last of four presented and unanimously endorsed at The Ohio Conference annual meeting on November 7. Whereas an analysis of the effectiveness of institutions of higher learning indicated that the ideal ratio for full-time faculty to each administrator should be three to one; (i) Whereas accrediting agencies recognize that having many…
The Ohio Conference of AAUP Unanimously Endorses a Resolution Opposing Campus-Carry Legislation
This resolution is the third of four presented and unanimously endorsed at The Ohio Conference annual meeting on November 7. Opposition to House Bill 48 Whereas the Ohio Conference AAUP has a commitment to the safety and welfare of its members and their students, and to the educational missions of its members’ institutions; Whereas Ohio House…
Half Right and Half True
The current turmoil on a few college campuses has, of course, led many of us to generalize, to maintain that there’s a new student radicalism in the air, that the chickens of neoliberal disruption are coming home to roost, that coddled and ‘trigger warned’ youths are finally seeing the ‘real’ world and are retreating to…
Murder Is Our Peculiar Pastime: Fifty Notable American Crime Novels: 13-14
Cornwell, Patricia. Post-Mortem. New York: 1990. An award-winning investigative journalist, Cornwell’s first book was a well-received biography of Ruth Bell Graham, the wife of evangelist Billy Graham, published in the mid-1980s. She subsequently worked as a technical writer and computer analyst with the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Richmond, Virginia. This experience inspired…
Within the Supposedly “Common Sense” Talking Points, Fundamental Incoherence
We have been told that charter schools are needed as an alternative to our public schools because our public schools are failing to prepare our children for meaningful immediate employment or for higher education. Of course, despite massive taxpayer subsidies, selective enrollment policies, and the misreporting of the results of standardized tests and other assessments,…
The Kent State Chapter of AAUP Has Scheduled a Strike Authorization Vote
The Kent State Chapter of AAUP is conducting a strike authorization vote between November 18 and November 22. In an article for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Karen Farkas has provided a succinct summary of the events leading to this vote: “The current three-year contract expired Aug. 23. Kent State’s AAUP has about 450 members. “On…
The Ohio Conference of AAUP Unanimously Endorses a Resolution Expressing Support for Wisconsin Faculty
This resolution is the second of four presented and unanimously endorsed at The Ohio Conference annual meeting on November 7. Whereas members of the Ohio Conference AAUP harbor a grave concern that our colleagues in Wisconsin have lost tenure protections and collective bargaining rights; Whereas the members of the Ohio Conference AAUP believe that for…
A Mystery for the Engineers among Our Readers, or for All of Those Predisposed to Speculate
About a week ago, Business Insider reported that the Arizona Highway Department had found a mysterious device at the edge of field along a highway. Here are the clues provided by the device itself and a summary the initial speculation about its most likely purpose: 1. It is made of solid steel. 2. It has…