POSTED BY MARTIN KICH A week-long series of events from Juneteenth, Friday, June 19, to Thursday, June 25, 2020 A weeklong personal and professional development initiative for academics to honor the toll of racial trauma on Black people, resist anti-Blackness and white supremacy, and facilitate accountability and collective action. Registration is encouraged. Academics for Black…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The following is an open letter sent by the members of the Wittenberg AAUP chapter to their university president. The Ohio Conference AAUP fully supports the chapter and their efforts to promote and enforce standards of shared governance. June 9, 2020 An Open Letter to the President, Provost, Board of…
BY BRIAN CONNOLLY As universities across the country responded to COVID-19 with various austerity measures, including mass layoffs and furloughs, coupled with an insistence on returning faculty, staff, and students to campus, a group of faculty at the University of South Florida drafted a set of principles and submitted them to the administration. The aim…
BY MARTIN KICH Ohio’s colleges and universities are contributing in uncountable ways to the state’s efforts to contend with the coronavirus pandemic. Our faculty have provided expertise that has helped our state to meet a wide range of challenges, from conducting ground-breaking bio-medical research to resolving unprecedented logistical and technological issues. Our institutions have opened…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Chairman Alexander, Ranking Member Murray and members of the committee, thank you for giving me the opportunity to address you today on the important aspects of safely returning our nation’s academic institutions to their pre-COVID-19 pandemic status. I am Georges C. Benjamin, MD, executive director of the American Public Health Association.…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Lane College president Logan Hampton spoke on June 4, 2020 to the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. This is a transcript of the prepared remarks: Chairman Lamar Alexander, Ranking Member Patty Murray, and Members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today. My name…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH United Academics AAUP/AFT Local 4996 is calling for the immediate resignation of Jim Johnsen, President of the University of Alaska. All are invited to sign this petition regardless of United Academics affiliation so feel free to share this message with others. To sign the petition, please click here. Don’t delay .…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Brown University president Christina H. Paxson spoke on June 4, 2020 to the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. This is a transcript of the prepared remarks: Good morning, Chairman Alexander, Ranking Member Murray and Members of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. Thank you for inviting…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Purdue University president Mitch Daniels spoke on June 4, 2020 to the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. This is a transcript of the prepared remarks: I express my gratitude to Chairman Alexander, Ranking Member Murray, and members of the Senate HELP Committee for the invitation. On behalf…
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…