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What's Behind College Leadership Failures?
BY BRIAN C. MITCHELL In September 2012, I began contributing to the national conversation about higher education by tackling the concept of leadership in one of my first blogs for the Huffington Post. In that first article, I suggested, “the job has evolved, but the national imperative for presidents to lead as well as govern remains…
Global Survey of Academic Freedom Issues in 2015: United Kingdom, Part 1 [Post 10 of a Series]
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH In February, the Guardian included a piece on the results of study of freedom of speech on British campuses conducted by the online magazine Spiked: “80% of universities are shown, as a result of their official policies and actions, to have either restricted or actively censored free speech and expression on…
Murder Is Our Peculiar Pastime: Fifty Notable American Crime Novels: 21-22
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Gardner, Erle Stanley. The Case of the Crooked Candle. New York: Morrow, 1944. Erle Stanley Gardner was not the first mystery-suspense novelist to create a protagonist who was a lawyer. But his most famous creation, Perry Mason, has become the prototype for other criminal attorneys in the genre—so much so that…
Statistic of the Day
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH 0 (zero) Mayors who said their police department have poor relationships with minority communities, according to a recent Politico survey. Most said the relationships were excellent or good. Politico 15 Aug. 2016
Trump on Citizen Kane
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH This is from an article in the series The Trump Files being published online by Mother Jones: “Donald Trump’s favorite movie is Citizen Kane, the 1941 film about a publishing tycoon mogul who surrounds himself with material luxury but struggles to find happiness. ‘I loved Orson Welles,’ Trump told Bloomberg‘s Timothy O’Brien. ‘He was…
Berkeley Chancellor Resigns
BY HANK REICHMAN Just one week after University of California at Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi resigned following an investigation commissioned by UC President Janet Napolitano, which found she had violated “multiple policies,” “exercised poor judgment” and had “not been candid with university leadership,” a second UC chancellor has announced his resignation, pending selection of a…
Publish a lively chapter calendar
BY CAPRICE LAWLESS If your chapters are like ours (spread out across a large geographic region) and your membership like ours (working multiple jobs on multiple campuses) publish a calendar on your website to help keep everyone on the same page. (See link below.) A calendar like no other, ours is easy to update and…
Funding Available for AAUP Governance Conference Registration Fees
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The AAUP Foundation Board has approved funds to cover registration fees for up to six faculty members to attend the AAUP Shared Governance Conference and Workshops, with preference given to candidates who are likely to broaden the diversity of shared governance on their campuses. Interested candidates should contact AAUP Executive Director Julie…
Melania Trump Can Make Lectures on Plagiarism more Stimulating
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…