AAUP-Purdue Calls for End to Purdue Global Policies Unfair to Students, Faculty
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The following is the text of a press statement released on Friday by the Purdue University chapter of the AAUP. It is followed by the full text of the resolution passed by the chapter. Members of Purdue University’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) passed a resolution at…
Making Classrooms Safe for Dreamers, Immigrants, and Refugees
BY SUZANNE A. WHITEHEAD It has been several months since I first penned my new Academe article, “How Do We Teach Now,” and a year after I created a study at my university with counselor education graduates and students. The article is all about the change in the national administration in Washington, and many of…
Talk to Faculty and Students and Other College Tour Tips
BY BRIAN C. MITCHELL In the cycle of each academic year, two events come together on college campuses to demonstrate the continuity of tradition, business, and the calendar. The first is “move in” day. It’s one of my favorite moments, exceeded only by Commencement and perhaps the emotion that comes during an unexpected win in…
Michigan College Students File Suit against Voter Suppression Measures
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH This is from the Daily Kos’s Elections Update daily newsletter: Democratic students at the University of Michigan and Michigan State University have filed a federal lawsuit against Republican Secretary of State Ruth Johnson over a state election law that requires voters to register at the address on their driver’s license, even if that…
A Tale of Two Campuses
BY HANK REICHMAN A well-known feature of American higher education, especially among large privates and public “flagships,” is the regional rivalry, mostly athletics-based. You know, Ohio State-Michigan, Harvard-Yale, Alabama-Auburn, or UCLA-USC. Here in the San Francisco Bay Area there’s Cal-Stanford (for anyone who may not be aware, Cal — short for California — is the…
“Purdue University Global is a For-Profit Masquerading as a Public University”
BY HANK REICHMAN In the wake of the AAUP’s recent disclosure that Purdue University Global — the totally online entity created when Purdue, ignoring protests by faculty and community leaders, acquired for-profit Kaplan University (see my previous post here)— is requiring its instructional faculty to accept a restrictive non-disclosure agreement, the Century Foundation,a progressive, nonpartisan…
Could a Counselor Have Prevented This Student’s Suicide?
BY HANK REICHMAN The following is from the Tampa Bay Times: The only mental health counselor at Florida Polytechnic University got laid off in June. She suspects she was too loud about the ways the troubled university was, in her eyes, failing its students. Her departure left some 1,400 of them with no on-campus counselor.…
Agents of Change Now Available on DVD
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN Agents of Change, the documentary film about the late 1960s student rebellions at San Francisco State and Cornell Universities, which led to the establishment of Black Studies programs at both schools, is now available on DVD. The film was shown to enthusiastic audiences at the AAUP’s 2015 and 2016 Summer Institutes.…
For Those of Us Who Prefer to Spread Our Achievements over a Lifetime
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH About a week ago, Nicole Williams contributed a short article to the CNN website with the title “He Just Graduated from College and Wants to Be an Astrophysicist. Oh, and He’s 11.” William Maillis (photo below) has received his Associate in Arts degree from St. Petersburg College in Florida. He’s planning…