BY MARTIN KICH You may remember (it was less than a decade ago, though that hardly seems possible) when this salute with a hand holding a styrofoam coffee cup was considered an unforgivable insult to our military: The talking heads were out in force to mock and to denounce the president for his failure to…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Ten years ago, Joel O’Dorisio was campaigning for a faculty union at Bowling Green State University. Ten years later, he has been campaigning to be the next State Senator for Ohio’s 2nd District. Some political candidates “talk the talk” of support for public education and labor, but BGSU Art Professor Joel…
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN Last week, John C. Eastman , Professor of law at Chapman University and senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, posted an op-ed on the Newsweek web page arguing that Sen. Kamala Harris is not a natural-born citizen and hence ineligible for the presidency since her parents were not citizens at the…
BY THE AAUP The AAUP issued the following statement today: The Department of Homeland Security’s July 6 ruling regarding international students and the upcoming 2020–21 academic year is but the latest example of the Trump administration’s callous cruelty, especially toward immigrants and those it deems “other.” The American Association of University Professors thus joins many…
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The AAUP is one of many signatories to the letter below, sent yesterday. July 10, 2020 The Honorable Chad Wolf U.S. Department of Homeland Security Office of the Secretary Washington, D.C. 20528 Dear Acting Secretary Wolf, On behalf of the American Council on Education (ACE) and the undersigned associations, we write…
BY THE FACNET STEERING COMMITTEE An Open Letter to College and University Faculty We are a diverse group of faculty at all levels, at institutions throughout the United States. We would like to invite any interested faculty, from teaching assistants and adjuncts to tenured professors, to join us in founding nonpartisan national and state-level faculty networks to…
BY MARTIN KICH The following two charts, which were included in an article from Brookings but taken from the sources indicated below them, suggest how closely the much-reported, mixed perceptions of higher education are connected to our hyper-partisan politics. The first chart compares the voting patterns in the 2016 presidential election and in the 2018…
BY JOHN K. WILSON Like most Americans, I was sickened by the senseless violence and destruction across the country this weekend, just as I was sickened by the murder of George Floyd. In recounting the terrible acts this past week, let me start at the top, with the evil and incompetence of Donald Trump. In…
BY MARTIN KICH The publication of a new biography of the legendary bluesman Robert Johnson, Brother Robert: Growing Up with Robert Johnson, written by his now elderly “step-sister,” Annye Anderson, with the assistance of Preston Lauterbach. As with just about everything else associated with Johnson, his blood relation to Annye Anderson is actually not quite…
