AUDIO: Resistance Round Table on Academic Freedom

POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN On July 8 I was interviewed on “Resistance Round Table,” a weekly radio broadcast on WPKN in Bridgeport, Connecticut, by AAUP member Ruthanne Baumgartner and Richard Hill.  We discussed current issues in academic freedom and free expression on campus.  To listen to the half-hour interview go to this link: http://archives.wpkn.org/bookmarks/listen/190984 A…

The College Library: Old School or Cutting Edge?

College Library: Old School or Cutting Edge?

BY BRIAN C. MITCHELL As colleges lay out their strategies to become more sustainable over the long term, there are uncertainties that can dramatically affect their abilities to do so. Some are programmatic, based upon unpredictable market conditions. Others rely on personnel decisions that shape an institution’s ability to be both flexible and creative. A…

Slogans and Stunts Won’t Overwhelm Facts Forever

BY MARTIN KICH The Trump Administration’s “Made in America Week” is a cruel con on the working-class Americans who voted for him—and not just because almost all Trump, Inc., products continue to be produced by cheap foreign labor. It is an insult to the intelligence working-class Americans because it ignores the very obvious reality that…

Victory at Trinity

BY HANS-JOERG TIEDE In a victory for academic freedom, the administration of Trinity College in Connecticut acknowledged today that Professor Johnny Williams’s social media posts “were protected by academic freedom and did not violate Trinity College policies.” The administration’s statement observed that “Our understanding of academic freedom in America today is rooted largely in a…

New Trinity College Statement on Johnny Williams

POSTED BY MARTIN KICH   Update, July 14: Trinity Dean of Faculty Releases Report after Review of Recent Social Media Activity   ​July 14, 2017 To the Trinity College Community, Freedom of inquiry and freedom of expression in pursuit of the truth are essential, not only to the health of the academy but also to…

UC Berkeley Faculty Association Supports Mills College Colleagues

POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The following statement was sent via email on Monday, July 10 by the University of California at Berkeley Faculty Association (BFA): To:       Elizabeth Hillman, President, Mills College Board of Trustees, Mills College CC:     Roger Sparks, Chair, Faculty Executive Committee Chinyere Oparah, Provost and Dean of the Faculty The Berkeley Faculty…