BY IRENE MULVEY AAUP president Irene Mulvey issued the following statement today. We mourn again and forever the murder of George Floyd at the hands of four Minneapolis police officers last May. Our thoughts are with his family and friends for their tragic loss, and all they have been through. Our relief at learning that…
BY JOHN K. WILSON Davarian L. Baldwin is the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies and founding director of the Smart Cities Lab at Trinity College and the author of In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities are Plundering Our Cities (Bold Type Books, 2021). John K. Wilson interviewed Baldwin via…
BY JOHN K. WILSON Earlier today, Boise State University lifted its suspension on 52 classes with 1300 students for UF 200: Foundations of Ethics & Diversity. This was a necessary correction to a serious mistake the administration made last week when it announced one of the largest attacks on academic freedom in American history, with 52…
BY THE AAUP We stand in sorrow and solidarity with Asian and Asian-American communities, who are facing an escalating series of racist attacks, including this week’s horrific attack in Georgia, in which anti-Asian racism compounded with misogyny evidently resulted in the murder of eight people. Anti-Asian racism has been a recurring theme in United States…
BY JOHN K. WILSON This past week, Georgetown law school fired adjunct professor Sandra Sellers (and suspended her co-instructor David Batson) for an accidentally recorded conversation about racial disparities in student grades. In the video, which was recorded in February when the taping of the class continued after all the students had left the session,…
BY IRENE MULVEY, PAUL DAVIS, AND CHRISTOPHER SINCLAIR AAUP leadership issued the following statement today. Two days ago, while white supremacist, Trump-supporting insurrectionists stormed the United States Capitol, we wrote that we were appalled by the assault and noted that the current administration’s actions—over the long term but especially since the election of Joe Biden in November—are…
BY MICHAEL JANIS In the last four years, the increase in discrimination and racism in the United States has taken many forms, from unchecked police brutality to the rise in hate crimes and in blatant sexist and white supremacist rhetoric. As a professor, since 2003, at Morehouse College, one of the nation’s oldest historically Black…
POSTED BY JOHN K. WILSON The following open letter in support of Prof. Garrett Felber, to University of Mississippi Chancellor Boyce and the chair of the history department, was written in response to the news that Felber has been fired as an assistant professor of history. Although this open letter has no connection to the…
BY ANDREW ROSS In one of the great ironies of our times, Joe Biden, who did more than any other politician to make it harder for individuals to escape their credit card debts and student loans, is likely to discharge a significant chunk of education debt once he takes office in January. The “compromise and…
POSTED BY JENNIFER RUTH This is the first in a series of posts attempting to articulate lessons from the last decade of polarization. The series is entitled “What Have We Learned?” but I’m keenly aware that the “we” is highly ambiguous and mostly fictional. We are not one group and there is no consensus on…