BY GEFEN BAR-ON SANTOR Guest blogger Gefen Bar-On Santor teaches English at the University of Ottawa. I often feel in competition with the Internet as I search for materials to make my lectures more stimulating—a word many students use to describe what they want. No matter how engaging I try to become, there is still…
BY MARTIN KICH The White House has released the books on President Obama’s “Summer Reading List”; Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald Seveneves by Neal Stephenson None of the books are explicitly being recommended by the President, but…
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POSTED BY MARTIN KICH These two cases are not exactly alike, but they are enough alike that one would think that the outrage over the second case would be much more heightened, rather than so much more muted, than that provoked by the first case. This is from an article by Lizzie Crocker for the…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH This item has been distributed by Loonwatch [http://www.loonwatch.com/], a website that tracks examples of Islamophobia and other expressions of Nativism, xenophobia, White nationalism, and hate-think: “The 2016 presidential election season has been punctuated by the implosion of the Republican party, decimated by the long nurtured hatred and xenophobia that it has…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The woman who speaks at the very end of this video demonstrates how readily a prideful disregard for the need for any consistency of opinion and any nuance of opinion can be misconstrued for some new kind of honesty.
BY MARTIN KICH This item was posted to our faculty listserve yesterday: “A pair of navy blue men’s dress slacks were found outside between Rike and Allyn halls. If you are missing them, please email me.” The item about the lost men’s slacks reminded me that about 30 years ago, I wrote a poem about…
BY MICHAEL A. OLIVAS This is a guest post by Michael A. Olivas, the William B. Bates Distinguished Chair in Law at the University of Houston Law Center. The most recent of his fifteen books is Suing Alma Mater: Higher Education and the Courts (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013). He hosts a weekly NPR radio show,…
BY HANK REICHMAN University of California at Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi, who was suspended in April after the UC Office of the President opened an inquiry into allegations of nepotism and misuse of student funds, resigned today after an investigation commissioned by UC President Janet Napolitano found that she had violated “multiple policies,” “exercised poor…
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The following is the text of an August 8 press release from the American Federation of Teachers (AFT): This week, the California Federation of Teachers filed a substantive new complaint against the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges, arguing that the accreditor of California’s community colleges has failed so completely…