On October 20, The Excelsior, the student news site at Brooklyn College published an article titled “Brooklyn College PSC Continues to Press CUNY and the State.” At the top of the article is this photo of James Davis, who served several terms on the Executive Committee of AAUP’s national Collective Bargaining Congress, and Rudy Fichtenbaum, president…
The following is a Professional Staff Congress press release: Bill Passed with Huge Bipartisan Vote Would Improve Quality of Public Higher Education Albany—More than 35,000 students are urging Governor Cuomo to sign legislation to protect educational quality at New York’s two public university systems, the City University of New York (CUNY) and the State University…
The following piece was published originally on the website of the AAUP chapter at the University of Akron. Although it addresses issues at their institution, none of those issues are specific to their institution alone. ________________________ {The title of this post] was, quite literally, the take-home message from President Scarborough’s State of the University address.…
The closest I’ve been to Bamako in Mali is a truckstop town called San, about 200 miles to the east. I was travelling to Bobo-Dioulasso after a trip on the Niger River from Gao to Mopti just a couple of months more than twenty-six years ago. My first attempt to visit Mali, three years earlier,…
This is a guest post by Laura M. Portnoi, the interim associate dean for graduate studies and research in the College of Education at California State University–Long Beach, and Sylvia S. Bagley, director of teacher leadership in the College of Education at the University of Washington. Portnoi and Bagley’s coedited essay collection (with Val D. Rust) on…
Press Release from the Professional Staff Congress: New York—Hundreds of faculty and staff from the City University of New York called on the Governor tonight to end his refusal to invest adequately in quality education for CUNY students and a fair contract for CUNY workers who have been without a contract for five years. The…
This is a guest post by Dànielle Nicole DeVoss, author of the article “Academia, Academe, and Intellectual Property” in the new November-December 2015 issue of Academe. She is a professor of professional writing at Michigan State University and the 2015–16 junior chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication Intellectual Property Caucus. A while back, I was mad. Incensed…
Looking ahead to the second century of the AAUP’s existence, the November-December issue of Academe includes two articles that select a specific year as a springboard for imagining the future of higher education. While both articles acknowledge the impossibility of predicting the future accurately, they each offer insights into current attitudes that may influence the…
I don’t wish to exaggerate the illustrative implications of a single incident, but the following story from the Washington Post does suggests many of the most obvious reasons why permitting guns on our campuses is a dangerous idea: “Washington College closed its Maryland campus Tuesday morning until further notice as police and the FBI intensified…
Culminating AAUP’s centennial year, the November-December issue of Academe looks forward to the future. My lead article asks, “Does Academic Freedom Have a Future?” I argue that AAUP can look back with pride on its efforts to support academic freedom. Thanks to our Association, today “even the enemies of academic freedom are often compelled to…