BY HANK REICHMAN The horrific Labor Day lockout at Long Island University’s Brooklyn campus has emerged, for the moment, as a front-line battleground in the fight for the future of higher education. If you haven’t yet joined the letters campaign in support of the LIU faculty initiated by the American Federation of Teachers, please do…
BY HANK REICHMAN The Labor Day lockout of faculty at Long Island University’s Brooklyn campus has placed that institution on the front lines of the battle for higher education’s future. It’s a big national story — the first time ever that a college or university administration in the U.S. has locked out its faculty —…
BY PETER N. KIRSTEIN One of the concerns that emerged during the ideological purge of Steven Salaita was its potential evisceration of the American Indian Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Many feared that the vile assault on academic freedom and shared governance that precipitated the irreparable harm of a tenured professor’s career, would…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Emory University Florida State University University of Florida Furman University Gallaudet University George Washington University University of Georgia Hampton University Harvard University University of Idaho _________________________ Other Posts in This Series: Housing Provided to Public University Presidents in Ohio: https://academeblog.org/2015/12/26/housing-provided-to-public-university-presidents-in-ohio/. Residences of Presidents of public Universities in Ohio: https://academeblog.org/2015/12/26/residences-of-presidents-of-public-universities-in-ohio/. Presidential…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Job Growth and Good-Paying Job Growth in U.S. Urban Areas The “right-to-work” states are indicated in red, and the pro-labor states in white: If you compare that map with the following map, showing the raw job growth in U.S. urban areas, you’ll see that the greatest raw job growth…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH “The liberal media took what I said and went against the law and the Constitution and ran with it, and they said that I wanted [Hillary Clinton] assassinated, which I never did. I said I spoke as a veteran, and she should be shot in a firing squad for treason.” Al…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Economic Anxiety and Racial Resentment, Mistrust:
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH This item is from the HuffPost Hill daily newsletter for 19 Aug. 2016: CHRIS CHRISTIE CONTINUES TO ENDEAR HIMSELF TO HIS HEAVILY DEMOCRATIC STATE–Mollie Reilly: “New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) vetoed a bill Thursday that would have made it easier for people to register to vote, claiming the measure would increase voter fraud. The bill, passed by the state…
BY MARTIN KICH Eastern Gateway Community College is located in east-central Ohio, at the northern end of Ohio’s Appalachian region, where the population growth has remained flat or the populations has actually been declining. Beyond the basic population numbers, the population is aging, and the fracking boom has not replaced the jobs lost with the…
BY DEBORAH MUTNICK Guest blogger Deborah Mutnick is a long-time professor at Long Island University’s Brooklyn, NY campus. As of 12:00 a.m., Saturday, September 3, my colleagues and I were locked out of our University in the midst of contract negotiations between our faculty union and management. The letter I got from the administration told…