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…
BY MARTIN KICH This is the lead item in a news item from the Far-Right media site World Net Daily: If you cannot read the line right before “Read More,” it says: “Finally someone with all-American blood has the guts to stand up against government orders.” Decades ago, when I spent more time on barstools,…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH In an article published on Saturday evening by the Washington Post, Dan Baltz has much more thoroughly presented basically the same case that I was attempting to make in my post from last Friday. Here are some selected passages from the beginning of Baltz’s article: The government’s halting response to the coronavirus pandemic…
BY MARTIN KICH When Donald Trump began to form his Cabinet, it became clear almost immediately that one of the main criteria for leading a department would be a history of publicly expressed antipathy toward that department. Thus, Rick Perry became the Energy Secretary. Ben Carson was named the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.…
