POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The following is the text of an open letter to members of the U.S. Congress co-written by the March for Science and the American Psychological Association and signed by a growing number of scholarly organizations, including the AAUP. To add your signature go to https://www.marchforscience.com/gunviolence To: The Members of Congress Three…
BY HANK REICHMAN With high school students and their supporters across the country planning walkouts from class this spring to demand common sense gun control measures, it may be useful to look back on, commemorate, and learn from events that occurred 50 years ago this week. Among the many anniversaries from the remarkable year 1968,…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH About a week ago, I posted Rudy Fichtenbaum’s speech rallying our chapter members at Wright State before we marched as a group across campus to an open forum being hosted by our university’s President, its chief Financial Officer, and the Chair of our board of Trustees. [See https://academeblog.org/2018/02/09/rudy-rallies-wright-state-faculty/.] What follows is…
BY JOHN K. WILSON Young adults are under attack. Dick’s, Wal-Mart, Kroger and other stores have announced that they are raising the age limit to 21 for gun purchases. Donald Trump expressed his support for raising the age limit, declaring that “it’s a big issue now,” despite the opposition of the National Rifle Association to…
BY THE TENNESSEE TECH UNIVERSITY AAUP CHAPTER The Tennessee Tech University chapter of the AAUP passed the following resolution yesterday about a controversy concerning allegations of research misconduct and conflict of interest. WHEREAS a chief purpose of AAUP has always been the protection of shared governance, which requires academic matters in the university to be…
BY JOERG TIEDE The national American Association of University Professors joins its California state conference in urging the suspension of two executive orders, EO 1100 (revised) and EO 1110, that make extensive changes to the general education requirements, placement testing, and remedial education policies applying to all of the California State University (CSU) campuses. The…
POSTED BY THE AAUP Below is the text of an email from AAUP president Rudy Fichtenbaum and AAUP Collective Bargaining Congress chair Paul Davis sent on February 27 following the February 26 oral arguments at the US Supreme Court in the case of Janus v. AFSCME. Dear Colleague, Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in…
BY HANK REICHMAN I’ve mentioned before on this blog that, given the extraordinary events of 1968, this is a big year for 50th anniversaries. But today marks a notable 70th anniversary. On the morning of February 27, 1948, a plane traveling from Oakland to the Mexican border crashed in Los Gatos Canyon, California, about an…
BY LISA MINNICK Lisa Minnick, president of the Western Michigan University AAUP chapter and a member of the executive committee of the AAUP’s national Council, posted this letter to WMU faculty about national student walkouts planned for March 14 and April 20 on the WMU-AAUP blog website yesterday. Dear colleagues, As you are probably aware,…
BY NATHAN S. WEBSTER As a soldier in the US Army, I served in Iraq during 1991’s Desert Storm. So I understand institutional loyalty. I understand sacrifice in pursuit of a larger mission, and pride in a strong community tethered by common purpose. In recent weeks, the University of New Hampshire has gone in a…