The two-day strike by non-tenure-track faculty at the University of Illinois seeking a contract continues today. Here is a letter that appeared in the local newspaper supporting the strike: By Susan G. Davis and Richard S. Laugesen Members of the Non-Tenure Faculty Coalition Local 6546 (the union for non-tenure-track faculty at the University of Illinois) voted…
BY JOHN T. MCNAY John T. McNay is president of the Ohio Conference of the American Association of University Professors and a professor of history at the University of Cincinnati, Blue Ash. This op-ed appeared in the Cincinnati Enquirer and is available here. Professors at Ohio’s public universities and community colleges acknowledge the determination of state…
Three days ago in my post entitled “More Calls for Chancellor Katehi’s Dismissal,” I mentioned that University of California at Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi promised a response to such calls. Yesterday, Katehi released the following statement: If you have followed the news lately, UC Davis may seem like a tale of two communities. Our university…
On the Horizon 2017 Call for Articles Disrupting the University Due Date: 15 June 2016 Contact: Dr. Tom P Abeles, editor tabeles@gmail.com Whatsapp; Skype Cells: +250 78 731 9322 (Rwanda) +1 612 803 6459 (United States) Background On the Horizon, http://www.emeraldinsight.com/oth.htm is a quarterly foresight journal with a “systems” focus on the…
BY HOWARD V. HENDRIX This is a guest post by Howard V. Hendrix, who teaches literature and writing at California State University, Fresno. He is the author of six novels and many short stories, poems, and essays. His novelette, The Infinite Manqué, was recently published in the May 2016 issue of Analog magazine. “Professor, how can…
Here’s a press release from the AFT/IFT/AAUP local 6546 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, representing the non-tenure-track faculty out on strike today and tomorrow: Hundreds of non-tenure track faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will walk out of their labs and classrooms for two days beginning Tuesday morning, April 19, to…
BY HANK REICHMAN This is the fourth in a series of posts on issues in the University of California system, the nation’s premier public research institution. Previous posts in the series may be found here, here, and here. On Friday, the University of California at Berkeley announced that Provost Claude Steele is stepping down from…
BY BRIAN C. MITCHELL Crain’s Chicago Weekly published a fascinating, head-scratching and troubling opinion piece recently by two professors from the University of Illinois at Chicago and Northeastern Illinois University critical of the “wealth hoarding” of large private research institutions. They note: “In the past few weeks, as faculty at Chicago State University reviewed their…
Here is the opening section of a news report written by Craig Jarvis for the News and Observer in Raleigh: “The North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday ruled unconstitutional a state law that phased out job protections for teachers who had already earned them. “The court, in a unanimous decision, said the law, passed by…