Colorado Community College AAUP Fighting for “Adjunct” Faculty

The following statement was released today by the Colorado Community Colleges AAUP: Alarmed by heartbreaking requests from their teaching colleagues for food, health-care, beds, housing, help with shut-off notices from the Xcel Energy, etc., the faculty majority in the state’s most financially secure system of colleges asked the State Board of Community Colleges and Occupational…

Strategic Planning Comes to Berkeley

BY HANK REICHMAN This morning University of California at Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks sent an email to the entire university community announcing a new strategic planning initiative.  The entire lengthy but frustratingly vague message has been reproduced on the Remaking the University blog.  Summaries were also quickly released by Inside Higher Ed and the Chronicle…

My College Professor Won the New Hampshire Primary

The following piece was written by Brett Mandel and published on his personal blog. It is re-posted here with his permission. _________________________ As an undergrad a quarter-century ago, I would have certainly told you that such a future outcome was as unlikely as Alexander Hamilton, himself, being the subject of a smash-hit rap musical.  Today,…

UWM AAUP Calls on Regents to Support Research and Access

The following statement was released today by the AAUP’s University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee chapter. UWM AAUP Calls on the Board of Regents to Support and Sustain UWM’s Research and Access Missions The eyes of the country are on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) this week as the campus hosts a Democratic presidential debate. What will UWM…

ACLU Files Suit on Behalf of Danny Ledonne

DENVER – The ACLU of Colorado filed suit this morning on behalf of Danny Ledonne, a former professor who was banned by school officials from the Adams State University campus in Alamosa, CO after he created a website criticizing various university administration practices. From May 2011 to June 2015, Ledonne taught in the Mass Communications…

Confessions of a White Professor

This very nuanced reflection on race and its impact on faculty-student assumptions, communication, and effectiveness is sub-titled “How Ferguson, John Roberts, and an Anonymous Student Helped Me Understand Diversity in the Classroom.” The author of the essay is Margaret Williamson, an Associate Professor Emerita of Classics and Associate Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature at Dartmouth…

The Latest in Administrative Overreach

BY JONATHAN REES Aaron has already pointed you this morning to the very sad and strange events going on at Mount Saint Mary’s University in Maryland.  I want to quote from the same IHE article that Aaron did and add some different emphasis: “As an employee of Mount St. Mary’s University, you owe a duty…

Larycia Hawkins Resigns from Wheaton College

Writing for NPR, Camila Domonoski has reported the following: “A professor at an evangelical Christian college who was suspended for saying Christians and Muslims worship the same God will no longer be teaching at the school. “As we’ve reported, Larycia Hawkins, an associate professor of political science who had tenure at Wheaton College in Illinois,…

Faculty Become ‘Drowned Bunnies,’ Too

BY AARON BARLOW Two members of the new AAUP chapter at Mount St. Mary’s University—one tenured, one not—have been fired. According to an article by Scott Jaschik on Inside Higher Ed today, that leaves only ten chapter members. One, a tenured philosophy professor, was fired for disloyalty. The other, the faculty advisor to The Mountain…