BY HANK REICHMAN Agents of Change, the documentary film about the student movements for ethnic studies at Cornell and San Francisco State Universities in the late ’60s and early ’70s, had its world premiere last week at the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles. A rough cut of the film was previously screened to…
BY HANK REICHMAN Since the AAUP-affiliated California Faculty Association (CFA) announced dates last week for a potential April strike at all 23 campuses of the California State University (CSU) system, support for the union’s demand for a 5% salary increase has been growing. CFA President Jennifer Eagan has been hearing from large numbers of faculty…
BY HANK REICHMAN Even as gourmet and gluten-free choices expand at some elite college eateries, Sara Goldrick-Rab and Katharine Broton have published an excellent, if deeply disturbing, article on “The Hidden Hunger Problem on Campus.” For many it may be hard to believe, but the evidence is clear that a significant portion of the student…
This from a CNN article by Gregory Krieg: “Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Monday referenced a report from the scene about Scalia’s body when asked on a radio show to comment on the possibility that Scalia may have been murdered and whether there should be an independent investigation into this death. “’They say they found a…
BY RISA LIEBERWITZ There’s been much speculation about the impact of the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on the cases currently before the Court, particularly those anticipated to be decided by a 5-4 vote with Scalia in the majority. One of these cases is Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, in which the plaintiffs…
BY MARTIN KICH Governor Bruce Rauner is doing Scott Walker one better and turning Illinois into Bobby Jindal’s Louisiana without even pausing along the way to replicate what Walker has done in Wisconsin. What is occurring in all of these states is also occurring in Kansas, in Maine, and in a slew of states in…
BY MARTIN KICH Consider the following two teasers for items distributed by the Far Right “news source” World Net Daily: Urgent Calls Begin for Autopsy on Scalia Is there something we’re not being told about the death of Antonin Scalia? There’s suddenly a push for an autopsy to be performed on the Supreme Court…
BY MARTIN KICH In a recent post, “Faculty Become Drowned Bunnies, Too,” Aaron Barlow reported and commented on the words and actions of Simon Newman, president of Mount Saint Mary’s University. Newman, whose previous professional experience was with private-equity firms, abruptly fired two professors, one tenured, and demoted a dean after his remarks about actively…
BY HANK REICHMAN The student videojournalist who was threatened by professor Melissa Click, leading to a municipal assault charge, said Friday that he wants state lawmakers to stop using the incident to justify budget cuts for the University of Missouri (UM), according to a report in the Columbia Tribune. Mark Schierbecker’s video of Click —…
BY JOHN K. WILSON William Ringenberg is a Professor of History at Taylor University and the author of the new book, The Christian College and the Meaning of Academic Freedom: Truth-Seeking in Community (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). AcademeBlog co-editor John K. Wilson interviewed Ringenberg via email about his new book. John K. Wilson: You seem to…