POSTED BY MARTIN KICH What follows is a news release from the Wright State Office of Communications: Wright State University announced Nov. 16 that it has reached an agreement with the federal government to resolve questions and problems that arose when former university employees mishandled H-1B visa applications. The Wright State University Board of Trustees…
BY JOHN K. WILSON In a major victory for graduate student employees, Columbia University has agreed to a framework to recognize the Graduate Workers of Columbia-UAW (GWC-UAW) and the Columbia Postdoctoral Workers-UAW (CPW-UAW) and begin good-faith contract negotiations with the UAW. The Framework states that an agreement “must not infringe upon the integrity of Columbia’s…
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POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Photos taken by Josh Lenes and David Kociemba. Please sign and share a petition of support for our chapter’s efforts to get a fair contract: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/stand-with-wright-statefaculty. Please sign and share a petition of support for our chapter’s efforts to get a fair contract: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/stand-with-wright-statefaculty. Please sign and share a petition of…
BY MICHAEL C. BEHRENT, ALTHA CRAVEY, AND JAY M. SMITH Nearly three months after the Confederate statue was toppled by activists, “Silent Sam” continues to roil the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Despite the controversy’s campus-specific particularities, the questions it raises are emblematic of the issues confronting many campuses in our age of…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH 2018-10-19 BoT–Namisha Patel’s Remarks [PDF] Video Link: https://youtu.be/u7G9pQbuJdc. Because Nimisha Patel is a chair, she is not eligible to be a member of AAUP’s Wright State chapter. Good morning, I’m Dr. Nimisha Patel, Professor and Chair of the Teacher Education Department. Trustees Langos, Fecher, Fitzpatrick, your prior comments related to the Strategic…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Presidents should be required to have a minimum of self-awareness. I don’t think that this expectation should require a constitutional amendment or even a great deal of perception on the part of voters. Critics of President Trump focus on his ineptitude as a diplomat, his apparent ignorance of and even disinterest…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH These are the opening paragraphs of an article written by Alexandra Hutzler for Newsweek: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s security detail, one of the most extensive in the Trump administration, will cost U.S. taxpayers nearly $20 million through the fall of 2019. DeVos began receiving nonstop security from the U.S. Marshals Service…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Travis Doom is the President of the Faculty Senate at Wright State University 2018-10-19 BoT–Travis Doom’s Faculy Senate Report [PDF] Please sign and share a petition of support for our chapter’s efforts to get a fair contract: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/stand-with-wright-statefaculty. The Faculty Senate is relatively inactive in the summer. Most Faculty are on…