BY RANA JALEEL AND HANK REICHMAN In October, we learned that the Trump administration is considering a new legal definition of gender under Title IX, the federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in federally funded education programs. Gender would be narrowly defined “on a biological basis that is clear, grounded in science, objective and administrable” as…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH At a very high percentage of both public and private universities academic budgets are under strain because of all sorts of expenditures on non-academic programs, initiatives, and enterprises. One of the largest of these expenditures is typically on intercollegiate athletics, and the athletics budgets almost never include spending on stadiums, arenas,…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The image is from Popular Science [https://www.popsci.com/science/]. The current home page features an article on the current fires, “California’s Forest Management Isn’t the Problem” [https://www.popsci.com/forest-management-california-fires]. Writing for the Washington Post, Susan Svrluga has reported on the controversy surrounding a shelter-in-place order at Pepperdine University: Pepperdine University’s 3,600 undergraduates were ordered…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Noeleen McIlvenna is the Contract Administration Officer for the Wright State chapter and also the Coordinator of our contract campaign and strike preparation. 2018-10-19 BoT–Noeleen McIlvenna’s Remarks [PDF] Video Link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=Crn7SUboOME. Trustees, President Schrader, We have gathered today to reason with you to do what’s right for Wright State. Which is—to…
BY ANI KOKOBOBO Guest Blogger Ani Kokobobo is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Slavic Department, at the University of Kansas as well as Editor, Tolstoy Studies Journal. I recently gave a lecture about Leo Tolstoy’s views on sexuality, which was inspired by the contemporary #metoo movement. At the end, a faculty member from the host university…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH If blacks vote in great numbers, progressive whites win. It’s the only way progressive whites win. If blacks vote in great numbers, Hispanics win. If blacks, Hispanics and progressive whites vote, women win. When women win, children win. When women and children win, workers win. We must all come up together.…
POSTED BY KELLY HAND The new issue of Academe uses the feminist concept of intersectionality to consider gender on campus in relation to race, class, and other categories that shape our understanding of higher education. Contributors reframe problems such as sexual violence, declining access to public education, the vulnerability of contingent faculty, and the exploitation of graduate…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The truism that our colleges and universities need to be managed as businesses has lost whatever credibility it once might have had–largely because it has become very clear that academics are the only part of our institutions to which the truism is actually applied. It is not applied to the ballooning…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Understanding instead of fear-mongering, compassion instead of suspicion, dignity instead of degradation News media that protect the public interest instead of chasing ratings and profits, that emphasize truth over sensationalism, and that explore controversies instead of stoking them Insistence that our political leaders represent the best traits in our national character…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Please sign a petition of support for our chapter’s efforts to get a fair contract: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/stand-with-wright-state-faculty. In voting that ended at 5 pm on Noember 7, members of AAUP-WSU voted overwhelmingly to reject the Fact Finder’s report: 467 voted to reject, 12 to accept. Over 97% of the voters rejected the…