The AAUP was founded on January 1 and 2, 1915. Shortly after the founding meeting, the Association’s first president, Columbia University philosophy professor John Dewey, appointed a Committee on Academic Freedom and Academic Tenure, referred to as “the committee of fifteen.” The committee took up investigations of violations of academic freedom at the universities of Utah,…
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25. Postdoc blues: how do you know when it is time to give up? They think I’m a rising star, but my hopes of a real career in science are sinking. A melancholy start to our countdown. Like this? Try: PhD students run professors close in Twitter popularity contest 24. World’s top 10 universities led…
Since 1974 the Student Press Law Center (SPLC) has been the nation’s only legal assistance agency devoted exclusively to educating high school and college journalists about the rights and responsibilities embodied in the First Amendment and supporting the student news media in their struggle to cover important issues free from censorship. The SPLC provides free…
At least partly because of the bad weather, only one Iowa voter showed up at an event for the O’Malley campaign. Here is the description below the photo distributed by CNN’s Politics newsletter: “Martin’s only man: Opposite the former governor is ‘Kenneth,’ as he was identified in a tweet by reporter Sarah Beckman, who also served…
News Articles Failing the Entire Class Professor at Texas A&M at Galveston was so frustrated with students’ performance that he told them he wouldn’t pass anyone and that he was done with them. Administrators had other ideas. Cash Monitoring List Unveiled Education Department releases most of the names of colleges that have had access to…
This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found…
Faculty Statement on Narendra Modi Visit to Silicon Valley, Multiple Authors Culling the Iowa Faculty, Aaron Barlow Alice Dreger’s Letter of Resignation at Northwestern, Alice Dreger The Revelations in Phyllis Wise’s Emails, John K. Wilson Marquette to Fire John McAdams for His Blog, John K. Wilson The Troubling Case of Professor Stephen Cohen and the…
The Far-Right news service Newsmax has provided the following summary of an interview conducted by Mario Lopez for the entertainment-news show Extra: “Hollywood icon Clint Eastwood praised Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ben Carson—saying that either ‘would be better than what we got.’ . . . “’I think there’s quite a few of them…
My father used to ask a student to draw a line a meter long on the blackboard, take a look and tell the student the length was not right. “Practice,” he would say, “until you get it right.” That truncated part of my father’s lesson seems to be the model for contemporary American educational policy.…