BY AARON BARLOW Since the beginning of my academic career, I have intertwined the personal with my objects of study. After tentative moves toward some nonsense dissertation related to literary theory, I chucked it all and wrote on my favorite science-fiction writer. That, as they say, was my ‘defining moment.’ At the time, there was…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Our extended and ongoing contract impasse and our even more extended and ongoing contract campaign have made us aware of many opportunities that we have missed to connect more effectively with our members, with constituencies within our university community, and with groups in the communities that our university serves. As a…
Our AAUP chapters of the CCCS, now with members at six of the 13 colleges within the Colorado Community College System (CCCS) are celebrating our fifth year of organizing CCCS faculty. We have been advocating for equitable wages, health-care benefits and due process rights through five years of potlucks, pub crawls, Scrabble games, coffee klatches,…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH In a piece for the Undernews daily newsletter from the Progressive Review, Sam Smith recalls his activism in the 1960s and how the traumatic events of 1968 affected him and many activists like him. Near the end of the piece, he quotes from a piece that he wrote during that period:…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH This video is from Voice of America: <iframe src=”https://www.voanews.com/embed/player/0/4345240.html?type=video” frameborder=”0″ scrolling=”no” width=”640″ height=”360″ allowfullscreen></iframe> Here are photos from the first March for Science:
BY AARON BARLOW Years ago, when we were walking our dogs in our new neighborhood, a man my age at the time (late-50s) stepped out of his house and got right in my face on the sidewalk. I refused to back away. He yelled at me about dog pee and poop. I didn’t yell back…
BY CHELSEA FOWLER Today is Equal Pay Day.* Tomorrow, April 11, 2018, the AAUP will release the 2017–18 Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, which discusses salary and compensation across higher education institutions. There has been a growing trend in the United States in the past two decades of women’s postsecondary educational…
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) has written to Iran’s leader protesting the death in prison of an Iranian-Canadian university professor who was accused of spying by Iranian authorities. Kavous Seyed Emami, a dual-Canadian national, was arrested in January, and died in February in a Tehran prison, ostensibly by his…
BY HANK REICHMAN In June 2014 the AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure issued a report, “On Partnerships with Foreign Governments: The Case of Confucius Institutes.” That report warned that Confucius Institutes, then established at some 90 colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada, may “function as an arm of the Chinese…
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The following press statement was issued by a group of graduate students at Columbia University, announcing Academic Freedom Week, a series of panel discussions to be held at Columbia April 9-11. Your silence will not protect you. ― Audre Lorde, The battle for academic freedom at our nation’s universities has been…