BY CHRISTOPHER NEWFIELD The following is reposted from Remaking the University, where it appeared as the third in a series, Our Converging Crises. For the first two installments in the series go here and here. Christopher Newfield is Professor of English at the University of California at Santa Barbara, co-editor of Remaking the University, and…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH This photo taken by Alyson McClaran for Reuters should provoke immediate associations for most readers of this blog: I know that I was immediately fascinated by and moved by the photo. I felt inspired by the nurse’s using his “down time,” which must be especially precious to him and most other…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH In honor of World Book and Copyright Day, celebrated yesterday, the following books are available for free download 11:59 p.m. Pacific PT: The selection of titles for this celebration has become an annual event. The books are available for download at https://www.amazon.com/article/read-the-world-2020. Publishing Perspectives [https://publishingperspectives.com/] has provided the following concise overviews…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Below are images of Wright State University AAUP chapter leaders expressing their support for contingent faculty and graduate students at Ohio State University. [See yesterday’s blog post for additional information.]
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH AAUP-OSU Statement on the COVID-19 Crisis: What Does OSU Value and How Should It Respond? COVID-19 has led to unprecedented challenges to the work and wellbeing of those at The Ohio State University, and these pressures will continue to be felt in the months and years ahead. In their communications over…
BY CATHERINE E. SAUNDERS, VIRGINIA HOY, AND DEBORAH M. SÁNCHEZ This is the third in a series of three George Mason-AAUP Academe Blog posts on lessons learned from the presidential search campaign. Read the first posts on GMU’s campaign and the costs of secret presidential searches here and here. The trend toward increasing secrecy in…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The Department of Education just distributed this press release. It appears to be a formal announcement of the monies that we have all been discussing for several weeks. It seems to suggest that those monies are just now being released–now that the initial $6.2 billion in direct aid to students has…
BY MICHAEL SCHWALBE Solving social problems democratically requires well-informed citizens who can reason together despite differences in outlook. It requires, in short, rational public discourse. Making this happen has never been easy, and today it seems to be getting harder. Architects of the new Program for Public Discourse at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill…
BY JOHN K. WILSON On Friday, op-ed columnist David Brooks of the New York Times published one of his classic tone-deaf attempts to offer big thoughts on our times: “The Age Of Coddling Is Over.” The headline was absolutely right. Not because the coronavirus has suddenly made us all realize the virtues of hardship, but…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH On February 24, the following item was posted to the blog of the Ohio Conference of AAUP: OSU Athletics No Longer the Exception to the Rule In October of last year, we published a blog post about how much Ohio universities were subsidizing their athletic programs during the 2017-18 academic year. We indicated…