The following is from Sarah Palin’s Facebook page: OBAMA IS A SPECIAL KIND OF STUPID Enough is enough, Mr. President. There’s no “due respect” due you after pulling this stunt. Exploiting a sick, evil, ideological-driven attack on Americans to further your twisted anti-Second Amendment mission is disgusting. Today you’re demanding an “explanation” from law…
COCAL is the Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor, a nearly 20 year old network of contingent activists and their organizations that does a conference (now tri-national – USA, CAN (including QBC) , and MEX) every other year, usually in August. It also sponsors a listserv, called ADJ-L, and has an International Advisory Committee and a…
This article was written by Kevin Kinser, University at Albany, State University of New York, and originally published in The Conversation, an online magazine that allows articles to be reprinted in full, as long as the author and magazine are properly credited. The article provides insightful background on the evolution of for-profit colleges and universities over the…
From the PSC-CUNY: New York—A tentative collective bargaining agreement has been reached between the Professional Staff Congress (PSC), the union representing CUNY faculty and professional staff, and the City University of New York (CUNY). The deal was announced today by PSC President Barbara Bowen and CUNY Chancellor James B. Milliken. The proposed contract provides 10.41%…
Reporting in “CNN Money,” Heather Long notes that college enrollments have been dropping since 2010. By the fall of 2014, there were more than 800,000 fewer students than in 2010. Ted Mitchell, US Under Secretary of Education, suggests: “Historically, as the economy improves and Americans get back to work, college enrollment declines.” Ms. Long notes…
My most recent post reports on the efforts at Eastern Michigan University to forestall the privatization of the institution’s dining services. In a post to the Miami University of Ohio chapter’s Facebook page, Cathy Wagner has provided not just a parallel example of this sort of privatization at that institution but a broader perspective on…
BY CAPRICE LAWLESS Twice as many attended this year’s multi-college, AAUP end-of-the-school-year Damn It! Summit, held once again at the historic Denver Press Club. AAUP members from four college chapters within the Colorado Community College System (CCCS) showed up, ready to party. AAUP Colorado Conference Co-President, Steve Mumme, was on hand to toast the year’s…
The NCAA was founded out of a need to provide more safety for students playing extracurricular sports, particularly football. A century later, safety issues may end the NCAA’s long run of lucrative dominance and governance of all thing intercollegiate athletics. According to Ben Strauss of the New York Times, six class-action lawsuits were filed on…
Faculty and other workers at Eastern Michigan University are fighting a move by the EMU board of regents to privatize dining services at the institution. In April, according to the EMU All Union Council, which includes unions representing tenure and non-tenure-track faculty, food service and maintenance workers and clerical employees, a request for proposals (RFP) for…
BY HANK REICHMAN Two days ago I posted a piece about the University of Chicago’s ill-considered attempt to discipline graduating senior and student body president Tyler Kissinger for his leadership of a peaceful and brief sit-in advocating, among other demands, a $15 minimum wage for campus workers. Kissinger’s disciplinary hearing was held yesterday and The…