Trump University, Part II
BY JONATHAN REES Did you know that Donald Trump has promised to create a free national online university if he gets to become president again? You can read the basics of his proposal in Politico: Donald Trump wants to “revolutionize” higher education if elected president. And in a new campaign policy video, he is pledging…
CUCFA Welcomes Professor Napolitano to the Zoom Board; Calls on Her to Defend Academic Freedom
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN Former homeland security secretary and Arizona governor Janet Napolitano, who earlier this year stepped down as president of the University of California system after seven years and retreated to a faculty position in the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley, has joined the Board of Zoom, the company announced…
Teaching and Learning Relationships across Modalities
BY KIMBERLY HARDING Spring 2020 was the unanticipated semester. Few thought in January 2020 that we would be teaching remotely by the end of March. Even then, hope existed that Fall 2020 would emerge as a more “normal” semester. This hope has since been put to rest for most institutions of higher learning. During this…
Faculty, Fearing COVID-19 Community Spread, Call for Online-Only Fall Semester
BY MARCUS ALFRED, ERIN D. CHAPMAN, PHILIP N. COHEN, HEIDI LI FELDMAN, BETHANY L. LETIECQ, BINH Q. TRAN, AND JULIA G. YOUNG We are professors at universities across the DC metropolitan area. And, like so many of our colleagues nationwide, we fear our communities will not be safe if DC-area colleges and universities open as…
Do as I Do, Not as I Say? The Wall Street Hypocrisy on Online Education
BY JOHANN NEEM In a recent New York Times column, NYU business school professor Hans Taparia proclaimed (as many have before) that “the future of college is online.” Whenever I hear these words, I think of a student of mine, a dual major in history and anthropology, who testified before my institution’s Board of Trustees…
Opening the Digital Curtains Keeping Us from Our Students
BY AARON BARLOW What concerns me, as we move into an educational situation where all teachers are going to have to be prepared, of necessity, to shift from face-to-face to online teaching situations, is that we are being asked to forget about our skills in one as we make a transition to the other. We…
Zooming Past Equity in Higher Education: Technocratic Pedagogy Fails Social Justice Test
BY NOLAN HIGDON AND MICKEY HUFF The following essay appeared on Project Censored’s website and is reposted with permission. The response to COVID-19 by governing institutions has altered the lives and practices of people across the nation, including the students, faculty, and staff in higher education. One of the biggest changes in educational institutions has…
Our Classrooms and Our Campuses Are Petri Dishes
BY MARTIN KICH In my previous post, I tried to point toward some light in the midst of all of the darkness by highlighting some evidence of the continuing economic value of having a college degree. I would like this post to be considered within the context provided by that data. I am less concerned…
