BY HANK REICHMAN Scholars in the humanities and social sciences are painfully familiar with the widespread and baneful trend of converting teaching positions into contingent non-tenure-track, often part-time, “adjunct” jobs. But some may not realize that a similar trend on the research side, especially in the physical and natural sciences, has emerged through the abuse…
BY HANK REICHMAN Yesterday the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office agreed to drop all criminal charges against Melina Abdullah, a professor and chair of Pan-African Studies at California State University, Los Angeles and an activist in the AAUP-affiliated California Faculty Association. Prof. Abdullah, a prominent Black Lives Matter leader, faced charges of assaulting a police…
BY KERI L. RODGERS I am reaching out to share a career development opportunity for doctoral candidates or alumni who have disabilities as well as a service opportunity for faculty members interested in supporting early career scholars with disabilities. Please share this information with anyone who might be interested. Pre-Conference Seminar for Early Career Scholars…
BY MARTIN KICH Board of Trustees Wright State University 282 University Hall Dayton, Ohio 45435 February 8, 2019 Dear Trustees, We write in support of the Wright State University faculty who are exercising their ability to collectively bargain to protect the fair wages and benefits of workers. We all have a shared interest in…
BY MARTIN KICH Board of Trustees Wright State University 282 University Hall Dayton, Ohio 45435 Feb. 6, 2019 Dear Trustees, As members of the Ohio House of Representatives Democratic Caucus, we write in support of Wright State University (WSU) faculty and the Ohio Conference of American Association of University Professors as they work to…
BY LESLIE MARSH Guest blogger Leslie Marsh is an undergraduate in her senior year at Wright State University (WSU). Below is her response to a letter from Alpana Sharma, chair of the English languages and literature department, notifying her about the conversion of her full-semester course to a compressed seven-week course due to the ongoing…
BY ROBERT E. BIONAZ Robert Bionaz is a retired Chicago State University professor who made the original investigation about plagiarism in the dissertation of then-Chicago State interim provost Angela Henderson, who received a $694,000 settlement from the University of Illinois at Chicago because they revealed that they were examining her dissertation. This is his response…
BY BRIAN C. MITCHELL Last week, Melissa Korn reported in the Wall Street Journal that Oberlin, the University of Chicago, George Washington University, Washington University, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, among others, have extended their January application deadlines. She notes, “Some offered the extra time only to seniors who began but didn’t submit applications. Others sent broad…
BY JOHN K. WILSON It is shocking that the University of Illinois at Chicago would waste $694,000 in taxpayer funds to pay off a disgraced Chicago State administrator over a frivolous lawsuit. Angela Henderson was the acting provost at Chicago State when faculty critical of her took a look at her UIC dissertation and discovered…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH AAUP Members at Wright State’s Lake Campus (which looks as if it is located somewhere north of the Arctic Circle) Please sign our petition of support and distribute it to your contact lists and over your social media accounts: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/stand-with-wright-state-faculty. Please visit our social media accounts and express your support…