First-Round NFL Draft Picks by School

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…

Fund the freeze

(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…

If Donald Trump Were a Woman

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…

Principles and Intercollegiate Athletics

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…

The Road Taken

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.…

“Right to Work,” by the Numbers: Part 14

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…

Bobby Knight on Donald Trump

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…

Real Innovation, Not Corporate Modeling

If your institution has implemented RCM budgeting, you know that one of the main casualties of the model is interdisciplinary studies, especially across colleges. And given that most cutting-edge innovation is coming out of just those kinds of interdisciplinary study, the corporate management model is actually undermining one of the most significant ways in which…