POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN On September 29 I had the honor and privilege of participating, along with fellow AAUP Committee A member Joan Wallach Scott, in a webinar on academic freedom and student activism sponsored by the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy at the University of Pennsylvania. The discussion was moderated by…
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The following is the text of a letter sent August 12 to Robert C. Robbins, President of the University of Arizona, by US Senators Richard J. Durbin (D-IL) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH). Footnotes have been converted to hyperlinks. Dear President Robbins: We write today regarding University of Arizona’s (UA) bid to…
BY BRANDON RODRIGUEZ Brandon Rodriguez is a native New Yorker whose family migrated from Puerto Rico. He grew up in the South Bronx and attends Guttman Community College, which is part of City University of New York (CUNY). This essay is reposted with permission from the Activist History Review blog. My world changed in early…
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…
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The Education Trust–West and The Education Trust–New York in May partnered with Global Strategy Group to conduct a poll on the experiences of students attending two- and four-year institutions of higher learning in the midst of the coronavirus crisis. From May 14 to 19 an online survey of 1,010 two-year, four-year,…
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 JACOB A. BENNETT Results from a survey of University of New Hampshire undergraduate students were discussed at the April 2020 meetings of the University System of New Hampshire Board of Trustees, indicating that only “30% of students felt they continue[d] to learn effectively” after the abrupt and necessary shift to remote learning this past…
BY BOB NOWLAN One of the most egregious dimensions of outgoing University of Wisconsin system president Ray Cross’s May 7 “Blueprint for the University of Wisconsin System Beyond COVID-19”—which calls for a radical restructuring and effective elimination of the comprehensive dimension of the system’s eleven regional comprehensive universities, as well as an effective jettisoning of…
BY JOHN STREAMAS I have been better treated by university police than by administrators. But then, as a biracial Asian immigrant, I could pass for white. Several students of color—mostly black students but some Latinx and a few Asian Pacific and indigenous students as well—have reported to me harassment by local police. Some black male…