Yesterday, I was in Dayton, Ohio, meeting with several leaders of the Ohio Student Association (OSA). The Ohio Conference (OCAAUP) and our chapter at Wright State University have been supporting the group very enthusiastically. The OSA formed during the We Are Ohio campaign to repeal Senate Bill 5 as a mechanism for reaching voters 18-30.…
Guest blogger Alisa Roost is assistant professor of the humanities at Hostos Community College in the South Bronx. Her e-mail address is aroost@hostos.cuny.edu. Here, Roost writes about “Supporting Veterans in the Classroom,” an article that appeared recently in Academe. The United States has benefited from an all-volunteer military with both more professionalism in the armed…
Wow. Thank you all. Thank you so much. (Applause.) Thank you. “Dr. Obama”–I like that. (Laughter.) I think I’ll have everybody at home start calling me that. (Laughter.) Thank you. I am so honored to help you celebrate this wonderful day. And thank you, Ally; thank you, Dr. Knapp, for your generous introduction. I also…
Campbellsville University, located in Campbellsville in central Kentucky, is a Christian institution founded in 1906. It currently has an enrollment of about 3,200 students. That enrollment includes students attending two satellite campuses, in Louisville and Hodgenville, as well as students enrolled entirely in online programs. Campbellsville has partnered with The Learning House, Inc., to offer…
Testimony of John McNay, President of the Ohio Conference of AAUP, on House Bill 484, before the Ohio State Senate Finance Committee, on May 13, 2014 Chairman Oelslager, Ranking Member Sawyer, and distinguished members of the Senate Finance Committee: my name is John McNay and I am President of the Ohio Conference of the American…
Our own Hank Reichman (click here to see a list of his posts) has contributed to a New York Times opinion section “Room for Debate” spread, “Tongue-Tied on Campus.” Not only is he an important contributor to this blog but Reichman is the AAUP’s first vice president and chairman of the Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure. His most…
The Harvard Extension Cultural Studies Club invited the Satanic Temple of New York City to conduct a Black Mass on the Harvard Campus. The announcement of the event prompted widespread opposition at Harvard and throughout the Boston metropolitan area. More than 60,000 Harvard faculty, staff, students, alumni, and “friends” signed an online petition asking that…
AAUP members should receive their print copies of the May/June issue of Academe over the next few days. In the meantime, they can read it online–as can anyone else (there’s no paywall around here). If you only know us through the blog, you may find the magazine worth your while. More in depth and carefully prepared,…
The following transcript of David Remnick’s commencement address is reprinted here with the permission of the Syracuse University communications office. The video is available at: http://news.syr.edu/video-david-remnicks-commencement-address-15306/ Remnick is the editor of the New Yorker. So one would expect his commencement address to be witty and insightful. But the speech attrached some controversy because Remnick chose…
Several days ago, I posted several pie charts showing student-loan debt as a percentage of total personal debt in 2003 and in 2013. Business Insider has represented the same federal data as a bar graph of the first- and third-quarter data from each year between 2003 and 2014. What this graph allows one to see is that…