BY ERIC SANDGREN The following was published as an op-ed column on December 27 in the Wisconsin State Journal and is reposted with permission. The original column may be found here. Eric Sandgren is Professor of Experimental Pathology at UW Madison and vice-president of the Wisconsin state conference of the AAUP. The next University of…
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN Temple University professor Sara Goldrick-Rab probably knows and understands more about how real students today pay for — or are financially incapable of paying for — higher education than anyone else. Her book, Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream, is one of the…
BY Z. W. TAYLOR AND PATRICIA SOMERS With the rise of the #metoo movement, sexual harassment and sexual violence in all venues, including educational settings, have received increased scrutiny. Several troubling lawsuits have alleged either that college students were assaulted on campus—and that institutions did not exercise due diligence in Title IX reporting—or that students…
BY RACHEL IDA BUFF In case you missed it—and in case you have time to write over the winter break—we’re sharing this call for papers again. The February 3 submissions deadline is approaching quickly! It is remarkable how quickly all strata in public universities—staff, faculty, administrators, students—have grown accustomed to the saturation of…
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The following are excerpts from an article on the website of Reason magazine. To read the full piece go here. A vocational college in La Crosse, Wisconsin, spent more than $100,000 investigating one of its instructors for allegedly saying the local police department was “full of racists.” The school is Western…
BY ANTHONY ALESSANDRINI Not long after the election of Donald Trump, I shared a message in support of the right of undocumented students to pursue their education at City University of New York (CUNY), produced by a group of faculty and students and intended for inclusion on syllabi, to a faculty email list at Kingsborough…
BY DAVID G. EMBRICK AND JOHNNY E. WILLIAMS While Israel is actively erasing Palestinians’ land, livelihoods, stories, personhoods, and histories, the United States is providing Israel with funding, technical assistance, hardware, and even language to carry out its ongoing brutal and violent absorption of Palestine into Israel. Though this violation of international law is widely…
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN More than seven hundred scholars in Turkey have been prosecuted on criminal charges solely because they signed a peace petition calling for a halt to the fighting between Turkish forces and members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and an end to what they described as the “deliberate massacre and deportation…
BY HANK REICHMAN Yesterday two new comments were posted to my piece of a week ago, “On Indiana University’s Response to Professor Rasmusen,” one by someone identified as “M,” who is apparently a sociologist, and the other by Professor Rasmusen himself. These, I believe, merit a response beyond what is available in the comments section,…
I love flying Delta. When I moved from Germany to Minneapolis several years ago Lufthansa was no longer an option. It turned out that leaving behind the bare-bones Teutonic version of customer service was a good thing and I never looked back. Looking at Delta’s corporate values the other day when browsing the company’s website, I noticed the usual suspects—honesty, integrity, and respect—along with explanations seemingly targeted at preschoolers: Always tell the truth and don’t hurt anyone. Did that mean that Delta was run by a bunch of toddlers? No. I am told by my daughter, who works in public relations, that emphasizing basic virtues like honesty helps build consumer trust.