BY RACHEL IDA BUFF Last week, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee students organized a Peaceful Protest Against Professor Betsey Schoeller. On a warm summer evening, the event drew about 250 people, most of them young, many of them people of color. Most wore masks and stood in small clusters around Spaights Plaza, a gathering place in the…
BY JOHN K. WILSON Colleges are increasingly looking at antibullying policies to respond to abusive treatment on campus. In my article in the latest volume of the Journal of Academic Freedom, “The Danger of Campus Bans on Bullying,” I argue that universities must be wary of such rules. My argument is not that bullying on campus…
BY HANK REICHMAN Discussing targeted online harassment of faculty members in The Future of Academic Freedom, I wrote: It’s not only faculty; students too may become targets. For example, “after American University elected the first African-American woman to lead its student body, the white supremacist leader who founded one of the largest hate sites on…
BY RACHEL IDA BUFF Politically progressive faculty at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, have begun organizing more actively at their workplace. Most recently, a number of them have come together to run a slate in the upcoming campus union chapter elections, setting forth a vision of building a vibrant chapter grounded in rank-and-file activism. As these…
BY MARTIN KICH So writes Richard Vedder, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, in an article for Forbes. What follows is the opening paragraph, which is essentially an overview of the main points of his argument: A good case can be made that males are discriminated against on college campuses, and the discrimination has…
POSTED BY KELLY HAND The AAUP released an open letter to US congressman Jeff Fortenberry letting him know that threatening and harassing faculty members is unacceptable after Fortenberry’s chief of staff harassed Ari Kohen, an associate professor of political science at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. After Kohen “liked” on Facebook an image of an altered…
BY SIMON MALOY The following review of Campus Battlefield: How Conservatives Can Win the Battle on Campus and Why It Matters by Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA and creator of the notorious Professor Watchlist, is reposted with permission from Media Matters. Simon Maloy is a senior writer at Media Matters. Formerly a political writer…
BY AARON BARLOW Yesterday, I posted an expanded version of “Stop Disparaging Professors. They Work for a Better America” on medium.com. I added, in particular, mentions of a number of professors in the public sphere, including Christine Blasey Ford. I wrote: This unfortunate blindness to the reality of…
BY MARLEEN S. BARR In my new Academe article “Sex and the Single Feminist Science Fiction Scholar,” I focused on “sex” in light of #MeToo and was silent about the “feminist science fiction scholar” aspect of my professional life. I entered the Way Back Machine to state that I escaped being sexually abused. This is…
