America as 100 College Students
The graphic below comes from the website of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. At the risk of offending both the Gates Foundation and those who can’t stand its work on education, I thought I’d post it since it displays well the great diversity of the higher education student body in the U.S., even if…
Protest Greets Katehi Replacement
On April 27, University of California President Janet Napolitano announced that Linda Katehi, Chancellor of the UC Davis (UCD) campus, had been placed on “investigatory leave” and named Provost Ralph Hexter as Interim Chancellor. The following statement from thirteen University of California, Davis (UCD) graduate students appeared yesterday in the Davis Vanguard: Dear Colleagues, We,…
Cleveland State Law School CB Unit Goes to Fact-Finding
In the spring of 2014, the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law faculty voted to form a union–as a distinct collective-bargaining unit within the existing AAUP chapter at Cleveland State University. Faculty in every other CSU college have been unionized for more than 20 years. Indeed, nationally Cleveland-Marshall has been one of a very few law schools…
The Verizon Strike: It Is Important to All of Us, Too
This post was written by Dave Johnson for the daily Progressive Breakfast newsletter of the Campaign for America’s Future [http://ourfuture.org/], which has become a driving force behind the New Populist Movement. The group’s report, Organizing to Take Back America: The New Populist Movement, is available at: http://y.ourfuture.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/New-Populist-Movement-Organizing.pdf. Prepared by Roger Hickey, the co-director of the Campaign for…
Global Survey of Academic Freedom Issues in 2015 [Post 5 of a Series]
Canada—Overview In late October 2015, the Globe and Mail published a substantial article by Josh O’Kane treating the major academic-freedom issues in Canada that had arisen in the first ten months of the year: “Academic freedom has earned plenty of headlines in Canada this year. Dr. Duchesne’s case made waves in January. In May,…
Wisconsin-Madison Resolution of No-Confidence
Yesterday the Faculty Senate of the University of Wisconsin at Madison overwhelmingly voted no confidence in Ray Cross, president of the University of Wisconsin System, and in the system’s Board of Regents. The vote followed the board’s rejections of proposals made by faculty groups that would protect academic freedom in new system policies on tenure…
The Suspension of Linda Katehi
BY HANK REICHMAN On April 27, University of California President Janet Napolitano announced that Linda Katehi, Chancellor of the UC Davis campus, had been placed on “investigatory leave.” The action came in the wake of repeated calls by legislators for Katehi’s resignation or dismissal. This was not yet, as some have reported, tantamount to her…
End of Season Sale?
I wonder, where does all of this stuff go at the end of a campaign? Into a landfill? Is there anyone in the country who has collected the campaign chotchkies of all of the candidates who have run in 2016? Did candidates such as George Pataki and Jim Gilmore even bother to produce them?…
Pres. Obama’s Thank You to Charter Schools
Today is National Teacher Appreciation Day and this week is National Teacher Appreciation Week. In my previous post, I provided the statement made by John King, Secretary of Education, to mark the day and week. But, in a demonstration of not just persistent tone deafness but political obstinacy that is one of the most baffling…