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…
BY TAMMIE CUMMING, M. DAVID MILLER, FREDRIK DEBOER, AND JENNIFER BERGERON It seems that almost no aspect of academic life has been untouched by the coronavirus pandemic and the drastic measures governments and institutions have taken to respond to it. Nearly every postsecondary institution has adopted distance learning, forcing many faculty and students to adapt…
BY JOHN K. WILSON Liberty University has a long history of repression, including suppressing freedom of the press on campus by censoring its student newspaper. But Liberty reached a new low for liberty last week when president Jerry Falwell Jr. announced that the university has issued arrest warrants against two reporters for the crime of…