Keep Purdue Public!

POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The following is the text of a petition to the Higher Learning Commission signed by elected officials and community leaders from across Indiana and the Midwest, joined by thousands of faculty members and students at colleges and universities across Indiana and the Midwest.  The petition calls on the Commission to reject…

ICE at the Career Fair? DACA Students Say No

BY HANK REICHMAN In a small victory for the sanctuary movement, recruiters from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) won’t have a booth at the Rutgers University-Newark Government and Public Service Fair.  Students from RU Dreamers, a group for undocumented immigrants and their allies, organized an online “ICE is not welcome here” petition calling on…

Agents of Change Streaming Begins Today

POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN Agents of Change, the documentary film about the late 1960s student rebellions at San Francisco State and Cornell Universities, which led to the establishment of Black Studies programs at both schools, is now available for streaming.  The film was shown to enthusiastic audiences at the AAUP’s 2015 and 2016 Summer Institutes. …

college building with text overlay: Will Higher Education Heed Bond Rating Agency Warnings?

Do Colleges Have Strength to Heed Bond Rating Agency Warnings?

BY BRIAN C. MITCHELL Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s recently released their updated outlooks for American higher education. The news is not good. Moody’s revised its 2018 outlook for higher education from stable to negative “as aggregate operating revenue moderates while expense growth increases.” Moody’s vice president, Susan E. Shaffer, elaborated: “the annual change in…

AAUP’s Governance Committee Denounces Remarks by UW System President

BY MICHAEL DECESARE Yesterday the AAUP’s Committee on College and University Governance released the following statement: In October 2017, news broke of University of Wisconsin system president Ray Cross’s decision to propose a merger of the system’s two- and four-year institutions. It was the latest in a number of unilateral and secretive actions taken by system…