Even before the Latest Outbreak of Fires in California

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…

Noeleen McIlvenna’s Remarks at the Board of Trustees Meeting, 19 October 2018

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…

Quotation of the Day

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.…

Academe Explores Gender on Campus through Intersectional Lens

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…

United for America

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…

AAUP-WSU Members Reject Fact Finder’s Report in Overwhelming Vote

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…