BY RACHEL IDA BUFF We are pleased to announce the publication of Volume 9 of the AAUP’s Journal of Academic Freedom. The journal features recent scholarship on academic freedom and its relation to contemporary crises of austerity, shared governance, tenure, and collective bargaining. This year’s volume focuses on the intersections of academic freedom and free speech,…
BY AARON BARLOW Maybe it was just too perfect a topic for my classes today. Certainly, though, I couldn’t resist. It had everything. It had: Topicality that would keep students interested; Relationship to our university system (City University of New York); Room for discussion of student value, something particularly important for first-year college students; Relevance,…
BY DAVID PALUMBO-LIU I appreciate the opportunity to respond to Professor Hank Reichman’s criticism of our statement in support of Professor John Cheney-Lippold’s refusal to write a letter of recommendation for a student wishing to participate in a Study Abroad program in Israel. Cheney-Lippold cites as his reason his commitment to the Boycott, Divestment, and…
BY HANK REICHMAN Yesterday, John Wilson posted a comment on my post “Standing with Professional Ethics” that merits a longer response than is appropriate for a simple comment. I also want to use this opportunity to reply to another response to my post, which came from an AAUP leader via private email, and to make…
BY MARLEEN S. BARR In my new Academe article “Sex and the Single Feminist Science Fiction Scholar,” I focused on “sex” in light of #MeToo and was silent about the “feminist science fiction scholar” aspect of my professional life. I entered the Way Back Machine to state that I escaped being sexually abused. This is…
BY HANK REICHMAN Yesterday a group of faculty supporters of the BDS movement posted to this blog a statement, “Standing with John Cheney-Lippold,” which called on readers to support University of Michigan Professor Cheney-Lippold’s decision not to write a letter of recommendation for a student seeking to study for a semester in Israel. They offer…
BY SUZANNE A. WHITEHEAD It has been several months since I first penned my new Academe article, “How Do We Teach Now,” and a year after I created a study at my university with counselor education graduates and students. The article is all about the change in the national administration in Washington, and many of…
BY AARON BARLOW This past Monday saw publication of my last issue as Faculty Editor of Academe. After six years, it is time for change and I thoroughly approve of the AAUP’s plans for the magazine going forward. In fact, I suggested many of them. When I awoke a few hours ago, I saw that another…
BY Richard Falk, Cynthia Franklin, Terri Ginsberg, Salah Hassan, David Klein, Adam Miyashiro, Bill V. Mullen, David Palumbo-Liu, Andrew Ross, and Snehal Shingavi John Cheney-Lippold, an associate professor of American Culture at the University of Michigan—Ann Arbor, has been criticized by some supporters of the State of Israel for declining to write a letter of recommendation…
BY HANK REICHMAN Recently the AAUP and others have been calling attention to the growing phenomenon of targeted online (and direct) harassment of faculty members, which has become a major threat to the academic freedom of everyone in higher education. In January 2017, the AAUP issued a statement noting how individual faculty members “have been…