BY MARTIN KICH Here are the schools with the most NFL draft picks between 1996 and 2015: USC: 69 LSU: 63 Oklahoma: 57 Georgia: 56 Florida State: 54 (tie) Alabama: 53 (tie) Ohio State: 53 Miami: 46 Florida: 45 Wisconsin: 42 (tie) Clemson: 41 (tie) Texas: 41 (tie) California: 40 (tie) Notre Dame: 40 (tie)…
BY MARTIN KICH Here is the list, by school, for 2016: 5: Ohio State: Joey Bosa (No. 3 overall), Ezekiel Elliott (4), Eli Apple (10), Taylor Decker (16),Darron Lee (20) 3: Ole Miss: Laremy Tunsil (13), Laquon Treadwell (23), Robert Nkemdiche (29) 2: Florida: Vernon Hargreaves III (11), Keanu Neal (17) 2: Notre Dame: Ronnie Stanley (6), Will Fuller (21) Alabama: Ryan Kelly (18) Baylor: Corey Coleman (15) California: Jared Goff (1) Clemson: Shaq Lawson (19) Florida State: Jalen Ramsey (5) Georgia: Leonard Floyd (9) Houston – William Jackson III (24) Louisville: Sheldon…
BY MARTIN KICH Writing for Politico, Josh Gerstein has reported that hearings on the lawsuits against Trump University in both California and New York have been scheduled for the week in which the Republican National Convention will be held in Cleveland. Ironically, given Trump’s recurring assertions that Hillary Clinton may be under indictment during the…
(Cross-posted from languagepolitics.org) The UW-Madison Faculty Senate will vote on a resolution of no confidence in UW System President Ray Cross and the Board of Regents on Monday. The proximate cause is the egregious handling of Madison’s faculty layoff policy by System legal counsel, Cross, and the Regents, all of which is detailed at length…
BY JOHN K. WILSON Donald Trump’s sexism parade is on full march now that a woman is his clear opponent. He announced, “Frankly, if Hillary Clinton were a man, I don’t think she’d get 5 percent of the vote.” Like most of what comes out of Trump’s mouth, it was incredibly stupid. Not only is…
BY DAVE VANNESS Dear Colleagues, I am writing to you in my role as a fellow member of the UW-Madison faculty and not in my role as President of the local AAUP chapter. Our chapter is engaged in an ongoing, vigorous and respectful debate about the merits and risks of voting “No Confidence” in UW-System…
The following paragraphs are taken from an article written by Dom Amore for the Hartford Courant: “The [Connecticut] governor’s ban on state-paid travel to North Carolina does not preclude college sports teams from playing games there. “In the short term, the ban, which Gov. Dannel P. Malloy issued on March 31 in response to a North Carolina…
BY AARON BARLOW When I was an undergraduate, students and faculty saw a great deal of each other. We went to dinner at faculty homes, saw our teachers at concerts and art shows as well as frequently throughout the day. The faculty lived near campus and students were the prime focus of their professional lives.…
Workers Earning Federal Minimum Wage or Less The “right-to-work” states are indicated in red, and the pro-labor states in white: Compare that map with the following map: __________________________ Previous posts in this series have included: Right to Work by the Numbers, Part 1: Population Growth and Movement: https://academeblog.org/2013/04/03/2666/. Right to Work by the…
BY MARTIN KICH This evening, former Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight introduced Donald Trump at a rally in Indianapolis. Knight called Trump “the most prepared man in history to step in as president of the United States”–adding for emphasis, “There has never been a presidential candidate prepared to the length that this man is.” As…