Stat of the Day: Early Voting in Texas
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Here are the numbers for Texas’ 15 most populous counties: A fairly thorough analysis of these numbers is available through Daily Kos.
Trump University: Alleged Fraud, Racketeering, & the "Playbook"
BY TIFFANY KRAFT Guest Blogger Tiffany Kraft is an activist with Faculty Forward Network. It’s eye-popping to look at the facts and allegations involved in the open racketeering and fraud cases of Trump University, but it’s crucial to do so given that Donald Trump is running for the Oval Office. “It’s absolutely a con,” said…
Some Decline in Total Student Loan Debt
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The following page is from a College Board Report on Student Debt: Of course, one of the factors in this decline has been the closure of several of the largest for-profit chains with dozens of campuses nationwide and the dramatic decline in enrollment at the major online for-profit institutions. So, although…
Appeals to Millennial Voters
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH SNL Spoof Ad for Hillary Clinton: Ad from Will Ferrell: Speech by Chloe Grace Moretz at Democratic National Convention: Ad from Trump’s children widely panned on Twitter:
AAUP Intervention in Northwestern Jacqueline Stevens's Case
BY PETER N. KIRSTEIN Jacqueline Stevens and her attorney Rima Kapitan had contacted Illinois Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure concerning violations of AAUP standards at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Academe blog covered elements of her case, and this is an update of the Association’s engagement in the matter. Professor Stevens was forced to undergo…
Donald Trump's War on Education
BY JOHN K. WILSON Donald Trump spent most of the 2016 campaign saying almost nothing about education. But recently, Trump has made comments revealing that if he wins the presidency, it could have dramatic and alarming effects on public schools and universities. In his latest pronouncements about universities and in his “Contract with the American…
Thunder in the Rockies
BY CAPRICE LAWLESS The work of our AAUP chapters in Colorado’s community college system has been in the headlines recently and will continue to be so. It shows how the small, sparky things we do (staffing hallway membership tables, distributing our crossword puzzles, bookmarks, fliers, cookbooks, etc.) can lead to lightning bolts of change. Briefly,…
Impacts of Prestige Seeking in Higher Education
BY DESIREE ZERQUERA Guest blogger Desiree Zerquera, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Leadership Studies at the University of San Francisco. Her research focuses on the structuring of access and opportunity for marginalized students, particularly within urban universities. With fall recruitment in full swing, many colleges and universities may be eager to tout…
Their Future Is, After All, More at Stake than Ours
BY MARTIN KICH These are the results of a presidential polling of K-8 students conducted by Scholastic. The first of these students should be eligible to vote in the 2024 presidential election. I think that the results are fairly remarkable, given that the professoriate has not yet had the opportunity to indoctrinate these students with…
Sandusky Costs Penn State Almost $10 Million More in One Week
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH This is from the Department of Education’s Office of Communications: The U.S. Department of Education today announced that it is seeking to impose on Penn State University a record fine of nearly $2.4 million for failing to comply with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act after a comprehensive…