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…

Can Universities Start Giving Scholars Credit for Public Writings?

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…

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…

What Kind of Business Is Run Like This?

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…

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…

World War I and Its impact on Universities in the UK and US

POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Jorge Tiede has written extensively on this blog and elsewhere about how the AAUP’s commitment to academic freedom was seriously threatened by the general repression of dissent throughout the U.S. during World War I. A recent series broadcast by PBS has emphasized that this repression of dissent stood in stark contrast…

Remembering Academic Freedom During World War I

BY JOHN K. WILSON Today is Remembrance Day, and the centennial of the end of World War I. It’s also a time to reflect on how academic freedom in America was silenced by war fever, and how the AAUP was a part of that repression. Here’s a excerpt from my dissertation on the history of…

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An Investigation into the Work Life of Adjunct Faculty

BY DAVID HILDEBRANDT I am studying the work life of adjunct faculty. You are invited to participate in this research if: You work as an adjunct faculty member. Your place of work is based in the United States of America. This research will help us understand the work life of adjunct faculty. We need your…

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