POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The photo appears in a 2014 post to the site The Syrup Trap. It is accompanied by this “news report”: VANCOUVER (The News Desk) — A coyote that has been seen wandering around the campus of the University of British Columbia has suddenly found himself with more than $21,000 in…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH In the “Culture Matters” section of NBC ‘s website, Daniel Arkin has contributed on article on a new game show called Paid Off, on which contestants are college graduates with significant student debt compete to answer trivia questions, with the winner having at least some of his or her debt paid…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH In “Colleges Ask for a Share of Future Salary in Lieu of Loans, “ an article written for the Associated Press and published in the Washington Post, David Jordan reports that Norwich University in Montpelier, Vermont, has become the latest post-secondary institution to adopt this alternative way for students to finance…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH This item is from Labour Start, which reports on labor issues and supports worker activism internationally. The details on the workers’ hours and compensation are pretty shocking: In South Korea, workers at IT software giant Oracle have been on strike since 16 May after negotiations for a first collective bargaining agreement with the…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The general reaction seems to have been fairly uniform: But while some people have seemed quite jubilant at the news, other people seem to be holding a grudge.
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH In this series, I have highlighted headlines that are cleverly expressed, making use of puns, irony, figurative language, or unexpected word choices to grab a reader’s attention. Not surprisingly, the Trump administration has so unabashedly flouted all sorts of political conventions that headline writers have felt freer to write headlines that…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The 13 July 2018 issue of University World News includes Maria Elena Hurtado’s article “Ten Universities Still Occupied in Fight to End Machismo”: The so-called ‘feminist wave’, started in mid-April, that took over by force 22 Chilean universities or faculties in demand for improved sexual harassment protocols, better conditions for female…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH In the online journal published by Still Point Spaces, Andrea Brady has written a lengthy, three-part personal essay on the “University as Anxiety Machine.” The essay should resonate with many academics in the U.S., as well as those in other nations. Here is the opening section: It was Welcome Week at…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Over the past decade, the Erdogan regime in Turkey has been targeting opposition groups, especially in the military, the judiciary, the news media, and academia. These attacks escalated dramatically after the attempted coup in July 2016. Despite the widespread repression, Erdogan managed only a relatively narrow victory in the most recent…
BY KELLY HAND The AAUP’s national office is quieter than usual because many of our staff are at the University of New Hampshire in Durham for the AAUP/AAUP-CBC Summer Institute, which begins today. Over two hundred faculty and academic activists will gather for four days of workshops and special programs to build their skills as…