POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN Here are some pictures I took at today’s NO to the #GradTax walkout at the University of California at Berkeley: The march approaches Sproul Plaza: On the stage: The audience: Wendy Brown, Class of 1936 First Professor of Political Science, addresses the rally on behalf of the Berkeley Faculty Association: From…
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN Below is the text of an open letter signed by 135 members of the University of Nebraska faculty expressing concern that “decisions involving the future of the University are being made without transparency or proper governance and under improper exertions of influence by the legislative and executive branches of the state…
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The AAUP, along with other higher education groups, strongly opposes proposed tax legislation that would hurt higher education. The tax bill passed by the House of Representatives threatens to devastate graduate education by reclassifying tuition waivers as taxable income–a move that, if it becomes law, would result in an untenable financial…
BY HANK REICHMAN The following is from the November 22 edition of the Riverside Press-Enterprise: A U[niversity of] C[alifornia] Riverside student seen in a viral video grabbing a fellow student’s pro-Trump hat has been charged with misdemeanor grand theft. The charge against Edith Macias was filed Nov. 3, and a warrant for her arrest was granted…
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN Last week the AAUP filed an amicus brief supporting a challenge to a statute and policy in Texas that compel faculty to permit concealed handguns in college classrooms. The brief in Glass v. Paxton, filed jointly with the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence and the Brady Center to Prevent Gun…
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The AAUP and a large coalition of other higher education groups have issued an open letter calling on legislators to protect the graduate student tuition waiver and the students it benefits. The AAUP previously called on its members and those who support higher education to “Vote No on the Tax Bill”…
BY LESLIE BARY Guest blogger Leslie Bary is District V Representative to the National Council of the AAUP and Secretary, Louisiana Conference. She teaches Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Louisiana. During the recent meeting of National Council of the AAUP I thought about quitting. The national leadership is obviously not interested in…
BY JOHN K. WILSON Roderick A. Ferguson is faculty in the Department of African American Studies and the Gender and Women’s Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the co-director of the Racialized Body research cluster at UIC. In 2018-19, he will serve as president of the American Studies Association. AcademeBlog…
BY LARRY CATÁ BACKER Once virtually everyone in the nation could look at the university and see in it the embodiment of a noble idea. Universities were the place where young adults were given an education (civic, social, and intellectual) to prepare them for the assumption of their roles in society. To that end, students…
BY JOERG TIEDE Last month, the Board of Directors of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB) issued a statement on shared governance. The statement delineates four principles “to help guide boards and those who work with them to achieve and support healthy and high-functioning shared governance”: Boards should commit to ensuring a broad…