Statistics of the Day: Higher-Ed Related
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Image of the Day
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH This is a photo of standardized testing of ninth graders at one high school in China: Reuters/Stringer
Is There a Sanctuary Movement on Your Campus?
BY KELLY HAND The sanctuary campus movement calling on campuses to provide a safe space for undocumented students has been growing quickly since the election. In November the AAUP issued a statement saying the following about sanctuary campuses: “Of special importance is the status of those among our students who are undocumented, many of whom…
Quotation of the Day
BY HANK REICHMAN In March I am scheduled to participate in a plenary panel on “The Impact of Anti-Intellectualism on the State of Higher Education” at the annual Hunter College Conference on Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions in New York. To prepare I’ve been reading (I’m embarrassed to admit, for the first…
Are You an Intellectual?
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN Ibram X. Kendi, assistant professor of African American history at the University of Florida and winner of the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction for Stamped from the Beginning: A Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, will be the plenary speaker at the AAUP’s Annual Conference on the State of…
The Thin Line between an Absurd Episode and an Awful Accident
BY MARTIN KICH Thoracic surgeon Henry Heimlich died on Saturday, December 17, at age 96. In 1962, Heimlich “developed the Heimlich Chest Drain Valve which was credited with saving many soldiers’ lives in the Vietnam War and is still used for patients undergoing chest surgery.” But most people would not be able to tell you…
Global Survey of Academic Freedom Issues in 2015 [Post 14 of a Series]
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Continental Europe In 2015, as the influx of refugees into Europe began to reach crisis proportions, Markus Kressler and Juan David Mendieta co-founded Kiron University, an institution exclusively available to refugees. The two major issues for the university’s potential students were access and funding. The issue of access was addressed by…
Statement on Language, Power, and Action
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The following statement has been released by the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), which is affiliated with the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE): Language is powerful. It empowers individuals to explore and change themselves and their worlds. A belief in this power of language and the abilities…
More For-Profits Denied Federal Student-Aid Monies
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH What follows is a news release from the Department of Education. Given how long it took the Department of Education to crack down on abuses at for-profit institutions, one wonders how much of that oversight will be reversed or simply ignored by the Trump administration. One would think that allowing a…
Image of the Day
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH This is a photo of student housing at a university in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China: Reuters/Stringer