BY NAN ENSTAD Nearly every day there is bad news about draconian cuts to a college or a university system as the economic emergency prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic compounds decades of crisis in higher education in the United States. We can expect such cuts to continue and worsen unless we change course in how…
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The following statement by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) was published on September 27. We all recognize that this is an extraordinarily difficult time for everyone in higher education. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to increased costs, yet state support is being cut back and enrollments…
BY HANK REICHMAN If you weren’t familiar with Zoom before the COVID-19 pandemic, you must be now. Everyone is using it — for faculty and staff meetings, seminar talks and panels, political and union organizing, socializing with friends and family, holding remote weddings and Bar Mitzvahs, and, of course, teaching online classes. And, yes, we’re…
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN Earlier this week John Wilson posted on this blog a piece about how “an event at San Francisco State University was banned by leading tech giants after a campaign to censor it.” If you have not read John’s post, please do so now; this is an incredibly important issue. As John…
BY ROBERT A. SCOTT Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic this past spring prompted the rapid turn to remote teaching and learning; caused uncertainty about whether teaching and learning would continue in the remote mode this fall; resulted in dire enrollment forecasts for domestic and international students; and raised questions about what plans should be made…
BY ELYSE CRYSTALL In my circle of family and friends in Brooklyn, the word chutzpah could indicate admiration for someone who asserted herself, spoke truth to power in spite of what others thought: “She had the chutzpah to challenge the senator’s policy on Medicaid expansion.” More often, however, chutzpah expressed disgust at a person who…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH This color-coded map indicating the proportionate number of votes for each state was created for a detailed article published by the New York Times. A somewhat more up-to-date by conventional map has been produced by Axios: The following table has also been created by Axios, and the article that includes…
BY HANK REICHMAN Two webinars in which I had the pleasure and privilege of participating are now available to view as video recordings on the web. Here is the first, originally scheduled as a live presentation at the annual conference of the National Center for for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and…
BY RACHEL IDA BUFF This post is excerpted from the introduction to volume 11 of the AAUP’s Journal of Academic Freedom. The entire volume will be available on September 22. The managed campus and the governed campus represent opposing visions of higher education. In practice and by definition, the managed campus is antithetical to both…
BY DAVE CRAWFORD With permission of the author, we share below the text of a message he sent to members of his AAUP chapter, the Fairfield University Faculty Welfare Committee / AAUP, on Labor Day. As most of us know, “Labor Day . . . constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have…